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Explanation and integration in mind and brain science / edited by David M. Kaplan.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy of mind.
- Neurosciences--Philosophy.
- Neurosciences.
- Psychology--Philosophy.
- Psychology.
- Neuropsychology--Philosophy.
- Neuropsychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Is the relationship between psychology and neuroscience one of autonomy or mutual constraint and integration? This volume includes new papers from leading philosophers seeking to address this issue by deepening our understanding of the similarities and differences between the explanatory patterns employed across these domains.
- Contents:
- 1. Integrating Mind and Brain Science: A Field Guide / David M. Kaplan
- 2. Neuroscience, Psychology, Reduction, and Functional Analysis / Robert Cummins
- 3. Explanatory Autonomy of Cognitive Models / Daniel A. Weiskopf
- 4. Explanation in Neurobiology: An Interventionist Perspective / James Woodward
- 5. Whole Story: Explanatory Autonomy and Convergent Evolution / Michael Strevens
- 6. Brains and Beliefs: On the Scientific Integration of Folk Psychology / Dominic Murphy
- 7. Function-Theoretic Explanation and the Search for Neural Mechanisms / Frances Egan
- 8. Neural Computation, Multiple Realizability, and the Prospects for Mechanistic Explanation / David M. Kaplan
- 9. Marr's Computational Level and Delineating Phenomena / Oron Shagrir and William Bechtel
- 10. Multiple Realization, Autonomy, and Integration / Kenneth Aizawa
- 11. A unified Mechanistic Account of Teleological Functions for Psychology and Neuroscience / Corey J. Maley and Gualtiero Piccinini.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 0-19-176566-X
- 0-19-150871-3
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