Jay Schulkin

Today, the opioid crisis often feels intractable. A Perspective on Opioid Addiction offers a wider perspective on its underlying causes, examining the biological, psychological, and social aspects of addiction and the interactions among them. Jay Schulkin, a behavioural neuroscientist, and Bryce Huebner, a philosopher, explore the complexities of opioid addiction through a distinctive combination of neuroscientific knowledge and pragmatist thought....

Pragmatism—a pluralistic philosophy with kinships to phenomenology, Gestalt psychology, and embodied cognitive science—is resurging across disciplines. It has growing relevance to literary studies, the arts, and religious scholarship, along with branches of political theory, not to mention our understanding of science. But philosophies and sciences of mind have lagged behind this pragmatic turn, for the most part retaining a central-nervous-system...