Philosophy Lecturer Wins Prestigious 2024 Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize

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.

The Brain Abstracted, Mazviita Chirimuuta

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.

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