Philosophy and neuroscience : a ruthlessly reductive account / by John Bickle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bickle, John.

Series:

Studies in brain and mind ; 2.

Studies in brain and mind ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neurosciences--Philosophy.

Neurosciences.

Psychophysiology.

Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical.

Philosophy.

Psychological Theory.

Medical Subjects:

Psychophysiology.

Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical.

Neurosciences.

Philosophy.

Psychological Theory.

Physical Description:

xvi, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2003]

Contents:

Chapter 1 From New Wave Reduction to New Wave Metascience 1

1. Why Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience? 1

2. Background: The Intertheortic Reduction Reformulation of the Mind-Body Problem 6

3. Revolts Against Nagel's Account 10

3.1 "Radical" Empiricism (and Patrick Suppes) 10

3.2 Schaffner's General Reduction (-Replacement) Paradigm 15

3.3 Hooker's General Theory of Reduction 16

4. Extending Hooker's Insight: New Wave Reduction 21

4.1 Handling Multiple Realizability 21

4.2 New Wave Reduction 26

5. WWSD? (What Would Socrates Do?) 29

5.1 Problems for New Wave Reductionism 29

5.2 New Wave Metascience 31

Chapter 2 Reduction-in-Practice in Current Mainstream Neuroscience 43

1. A Proposed "Psychoneural Link" 44

2. Two Psychological Features of Memory Consolidation 46

3. LTP is Discovered 52

3.1 From Hebb's Neuropsychological Speculations, 1949, to Norway, 1973 52

3.2 Some Basic Cellular Neuroscience 53

3.3 Back to Norway, 1973 61

4. Molecular Mechanisms of LTP: One Current Model 62

4.1 Early Phase LTP 63

4.2 Late Phase LTP 67

5. But is This Really Memory (Consolidation)? 75

5.1 Declarative Memory 76

5.2 Biotechnology Solves a Long-Standing Methodological Problem in LTP-Memory Research 81

5.3 An Experimental Link Between Molecules and Behavior: PKA, CREB, and Declarative Long-Term Memory Consolidation 88

6. The Nature of "Psychoneural Reduction" at Work in Current Mainstream (Cellular and Molecular) Neuroscience 95

Chapter 3 Mental Causation, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Multiple Realization 107

1. The Problem of Mental Causation 107

2. Letting Neuroscientific Practice be Our Guide 111

3. What About Cognitive Neuroscience? 115

3.1 "Levels" Questions Within Neuroscience 115

3.2 Searching For the Cellular Mechanisms of the Sequential Features of Higher Cognition 117

3.3 Cognitive Neuroscientific Resources to the Rescue: Biological Modeling and Functional Neuroimaging 121

3.4 Philosophical Lessons From Transdisciplinary Neuroscience 128

4. Putnam's Challenge and the Multiple Realization Orthodoxy 131

5. Molecular Mechanisms of Nondeclarative Memory Consolidation in Invertebrates 136

5.1 Single-Gene Fly Mutants for Associative Learning 136

5.2 Consolidating Nondeclarative Memory in the Sea Slug 141

6. Evolutionary Conservatism at the Molecular Level: The Expected Scope of Shared Molecular Mechanisms 149

7. Consequences For Current Philosophy of Mind 157

Chapter 4 Consciousness 163

1. Prefrontal Neurons Possess Working Memory Fields 165

2. Construction and Modulation of Memory Fields: From Circuit Connectivities to Receptor Proteins 171

3. Explicit Attention and Its Unremarkable Effects on Individual Neuron Activity 178

4. Single-Cell Neurophysiology and the "Hard Problem" 189

4.1 Chalmers on Easy Versus Hard Problems of Consciousness 189

4.2 Neuroscientific Background: Wilder Penfield's Pioneering Use of Cortical Stimulation 190

5. Inducing Phenomenology From Visual Motion to Somatosensory Flutter ... And Beyond? 194

5.1 Results from William Newsome's Lab 194

5.2 Results from Kenneth Britten's Lab 200

5.3 Results from Ranulfo Romo's Lab 203

6. The Strange Case of Phenomenal Externalism 206

7. The "Hard Problem" and the Society for Neuroscience Crowd 212.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-228) and index.

ISBN:

1402073941

1402013027

OCLC:

51764606