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philosophicalassumptions.
Thesecondpartofthecollection,AttheBorderBetween
NeuroscienceandPhilosophy,isdevotedtomoreconcreteissues
arisingattheintersectionofbothdisciplines.ŁukaszKurekin
PhilosophicalIssuesintheNeuroscienceofMindreading:TheCase
ofBeliefproposesaphilosophicalaccountofbeliefdevelopedinthe
contextoftheneuroscienceofmindreading(i.e.,theabilityto
predict,explain,anddescribepeople’sbehaviour).Heoutlineshow
theconceptofbeliefisunderstoodintheso-calledtheory-theoryof
mindreadingandthesimulationtheoryofmind.Furthermore,he
arguesthatonthetheory-theoryviewbeliefisunderstoodas
involvingcomplexandflexiblecognitiveprocesses,correlatedwith
specificpartsofthebrainsuchasrighttemporo-parietaljunction.
Ontheotherhand,withinthesimulationtheory,belief-likestates
involvesimpleandinflexiblecognitiveprocesses,correlatedwith
suchpartsofthebrainasamygdala.Kurekclaimsthatboththese
accountsareonlypartiallycorrectandarguesforthehybridaccount
ofmindreading.Accordingtothisview,beliefcanbeunderstoodas
amentalstateutilizedinhigh-level(complexandflexible)
mindreading.
ThefollowingpaperbyJuliaStanek,Self-Consciousness:From
PhilosophytoNeuroscience,investigatessomeselectedaspectsof
theproblemofself-consciousnessonthebasisofseveral
approaches:thephilosophical,psychological,sociological,clinical
andtheneuroscientific.Stanekprovidesanoverviewofthe
conceptionsofself-consciousnessofferedbysuchthinkersasRene
Descartes,JohnLocke,andThomasNagel.Fromthepsychological
perspective,theinfluentialworksofWilliamJamesandKarlJaspers
arebrieflyoutlined.Thoseconsiderationspreparethegroundfor
amoredetailedanalysisoftheresearchonself-consciousness
carriedoutwithinneuroscience.Referringtoseveralstudies,Stanek
arguesthatthephenomenoninquestiondoesnotarisefromasingle
neuralprocess.Furthermore,shepointsouttheconceptualand
