Two-volume Neurophilosophy

This two-volume collection is a coherent project for re-reading the human being in light of neuroscience. It is neither a matter of merely adding scientific data to philosophical questions, nor of reducing philosophy to biology. Rather, it is an attempt to reconstruct fundamental human concepts within an analytical framework that takes the brain as its point of departure and moves toward experience, society, and meaning.

Across these two volumes, the human being is portrayed neither as a creature detached from its biology nor as a captive of crude reductionism. The mind is examined as a dynamic process shaped by the interaction of neural networks, evolutionary history, and biological contexts. Perception, memory, emotion, identity, morality, and decision-making are analyzed as phenomena rooted in the architecture of the brain, yet whose consequences extend into the deepest layers of social existence. What we recognize as personal experience, belief, or moral judgment is, within this framework, neither mysterious nor simplistic, but the outcome of complex and layered mechanisms.

Taken together, these two volumes show how the inner world is constructed and how those inner worlds collide with one another to generate collective structures. From the level of the neuron and neural network to the level of social norms and structures of power, a continuous analytical spectrum is established. The aim of this collection is not merely to explain the brain, but to clarify that many concepts commonly treated as self-evident—from the self, free will, and morality to belonging and enemy-making—remain incomplete without a biological understanding of the human being.

While remaining faithful to the empirical data of neuroscience, this project also adopts a critical stance toward common oversimplifications. It turns neither to spiritual narratives nor to superficial scientific slogans. Instead, it seeks to build a precise bridge between first-person experience and third-person analysis—a bridge in which biology is taken seriously, while the complexity of human life is equally preserved.

This two-volume Neurophilosophy collection is an effort to see the human being as a complex biological system that generates meaning, identity, and social order from within the constraints and mechanisms of its own brain. This perspective is not meant to simplify the human being, but to see the human more deeply.