EXPLAINING THE BRAIN

MECHANISMS AND THE MOSAIC UNITY OF NEUROSCIENCE
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-956822-2
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 503 g

What distinguishes good explanations in neuroscience from bad? Carl F. Craver constructs and defends standards for evaluating neuroscientific explanations that are grounded in a systematic view of what neuroscientific explanations are: descriptions of multilevel mechanisms. In developing this approach, he draws on a wide range of examples in the history of neuroscience (e.g. Hodgkin and Huxley's model of the action potential and LTP as a putative explanation for different kinds of memory), as well as recent philosophical work on the nature of scientific explanation. Readers in neuroscience, psychology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of science will find much to provoke and stimulate them in this book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Craver

Craver, Carl F.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeit: Philosophische, Psychologische, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- 1: Introduction: Starting With Neuroscience

- 2: Explanation and Causal Relevance

- 3: Causal Relevance and Manipulation

- 4: The Norms of Mechanistic Explanation

- 5: A Field-Guide to Levels

- 6: Nonfundamental Explanation

- 7: The Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience

Über Autor(innen)

Carl F. Craver is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis.