Max Bennett (neurobiologist)

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Maxwell Richard Bennett (born February 19, 1939 in Melbourne , Victoria, Australia) is an Australian brain researcher who has entered into a close collaboration with the English philosopher Peter MS Hacker to clarify the conceptual foundations of neuroscience.

He is Professor of Physiology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Sydney , Head of the Neurobiological Laboratory and Scientific Director of the Brain & Mind Research Institute he founded .

Life

Max Bennett studied to Bachelor initially Electrical Engineering at the University of Melbourne . There he also completed research in zoology on the transmission of stimuli from the autonomic nervous system to the smooth muscles with a Master of Science degree in 1965 . In 1967 he obtained his PhD on it . In 1977 he also obtained a DSc from the University of Sydney with a thesis on synaptic transmission .

Fonts

  • Autonomic Neuromuscular Transmission. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1972, ISBN 0521084636 .
  • Optimizing Research and Development in Australia. Australian Academy of Science, Canberra 1987, ISBN 0858471388 .
  • The Idea of ​​Consciousness. Synapses and the Mind. Harwood Academic Publishers, London 1997, ISBN 9057022036 .
  • History of the Synapse. Harwood Academic Publishers, London 2001, ISBN 9058231321 .
  • with Peter Hacker : Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience . Blackwell, Oxford & Malden, Mass. 2003 ISBN 140510855X
    • of which chap. 14.4 and 14.5. in German translation: Philosophy and Neuroscience in: Dieter Sturma (Hrsg.): Philosophy and Neuroscience. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 2006 ( stw 1770 ) pp. 20–42 ISBN 3518293702
    • The philosophical foundations of neuroscience. Translated from English by Axel Walter. With a foreword by Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert . WBG , Darmstadt 2010 ISBN 978-3534228775
  • with Peter Hacker , Daniel Dennett and John Searle : Neuroscience and Philosophy. Brain, Mind and Language. Columbia Univ. Press, New York 2007 ISBN 0231140444
    • Neuroscience and Philosophy . Brain, mind and language. (Introduction and conclusion by Daniel Robinson, translation by Joachim Schulte) Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3518585429
  • with Peter Hacker : A History of Cognitive Neuroscience. - A conceptual investigation. (Complement to: Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience or The Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience ) Wiley-Blackwell Publ., Oxford 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bright Sparcs Biographical entry
  2. ^ FAZ review. by Helmut Mayer , review by (PDF; 63 kB) Geert Keil
  3. ^ FAZ review. by Helmut Mayer
  4. ↑ Announcement of the publisher
  5. ^ FAZ review. by Helmut Mayer
personal data
SURNAME Bennett, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bennett, Maxwell Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian brain researcher
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Victoria, Australia