The Royal Institute of Philosophy (TRIP) has announced that Dr Mazviita Chirimuuta’s book The Brain Abstracted has won the 2024 International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. Dr Chirimuuta, who will be awarded a prize of £20,000, was one of three finalists nominated alongside her PPLS colleague, Professor Shannon Vallor. Transcending the disciplinary boundaries between philosophy and neuroscience, Mazviita Chirimuuta’s The Brain Abstracted demonstrates that while simplification in science has its place, we should not allow ourselves to underestimate the complexity of the brain and consequently overestimate our comprehension of it. This remarkably original book transforms the ways in which we interpret the philosophical significance of neuroscience. Professor Constantine Sandis Chair of the judging panel, Director of Lex Academic and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire Related links Dr Mazviita ChirimuutaThe Brain Abstracted by Dr Mazviita ChirimuutaPPLS Podcast - Episode 4: The Brain AbstractedDouble Nomination for PPLS PhilosophersThe AI Mirror: Reclaiming Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking by Shannon Vallor Tags 2024 Publication date 20 Nov, 2024
