Perspectives Article
How Can Neurohistory Help Us Understand the Past?
This introduction to the RCC Perspectives volume discusses some of the diverse opportunities and pitfalls that neurohistory may face in the future.
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A Mind Divided Against Itself: Thinking Holistically with a Split Brain
Using McGilchrist’s study The Master and His Emissary, Frank Zelko discusses possible neurobiological origins of the tension between holistic and reductive thought, specifically by looking at the structure of the two hemispheres of our brains.
Perspectives Article
Causality and the Brain
This article considers how causality may not itself be a feature of the world as much as it is a result of the way the human brain encodes and structures experience.
Multimedia | journal article
“I Still Do a Lot of Good”
In this Springs article, history of technology professor Nina Wormbs explores how people justify acting unsustainably.
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Interview with Alexa Weik von Mossner, author of Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, former RCC Fellow Alexa Weik von Mossner is interviewed on her recent book, Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative.