EXPLAINING THE BRAIN PAPER: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience - Brossura

CRAVER, Carl F.

 
9780199568222: EXPLAINING THE BRAIN PAPER: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience

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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 Huxleys model of the action potential and L.T.P. 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.

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

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9780199299317: Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience

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ISBN 10:  0199299315 ISBN 13:  9780199299317
Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2007
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