Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition / Edition 1

by Elizabeth A. Wilson

Overview

Neural Geographies draws together recent feminist and deconstructive theories, early Freudian neurology and contemporary connectionist theories of cognition. In this original work, Elizabeth A. Wilson explores the convergence between Derrida, Freud and recent cognitive theory to pursue two important issues: the nature of cognition and neurology, and the politics of feminist and critical interventions into contemporary scientific psychology. This book seeks to reorient the usual presumptions of critical studies of the sciences by addressing the divisions between the static and the changeable; the natural and the political; the neuro-cognitive and the cultural that have been traditional to both scientific and critical accounts of neurology and cognition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415916004
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/10/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Elizabeth A. Wilson is a Lecturer in the Centre for Women's Studies at the Australian National University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Connectionism, Feminism, Deconstruction; Chapter one The Natural Habits of Feminist Psychology; Chapter two The Origins of Scientific Psychology; Chapter three Morphologies of Mind; Chapter four Projects for a Scientific Psychology; Chapter five Locating Cognition; Conclusion;