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The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience

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Winner of the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize from The Royal Institute of Philosophy
Winner of the 2025 Lakatos Award from the London School of Economics and Political Science

An exciting, new framework for interpreting the philosophical significance of neuroscience.


All science needs to simplify, but when the object of research is something as complicated as the brain, this challenge can stretch the limits of scientific possibility. In fact, in The Brain Abstracted, an avowedly “opinionated” hist...