William Bechtel

Mental Mechanisms (eBook, PDF)

Philosophical Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A variety of scientific disciplines have set as their task explaining mental activities, recognizing that in some way these activities depend upon our brain. But, until recently, the opportunities to conduct experiments directly on our brains were limited. As a result, research efforts were split between disciplines such as cognitive psychology, li

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136679711
• Artikelnr.: 38447660

Autorenporträt

William Bechtel

Inhaltsangabe

1. Naturalism and Mechanism: Outlines of a New Philosophy of Science.
2. From Mental Phenomena to Operations: Delineating and Decomposing Memory.
3. From Working Parts to Operations: Decomposing and Resynthesizing Visual
Processing. 4. Reduction and Independence of Higher-Level Sciences: A
Rapprochement. 5. Representations and Mental Mechanisms. 6. From Responsive
to Active Mechanisms. 7. Confronting Mechanism's Critics: Accounting for
Freedom and Dignity via Mental Mechanisms.

Rezensionen

"Mental Mechanisms provides one of the best accounts of the notion of a mechanism, detailing its prevalence in the practice of cognitive neuroscience. . . . [T]his is an important book that succeeds admirably in spelling out the mechanistic approach, its implications, and its empirical applications. Because of this, Mental Mechanisms should spark interest in anyone working on reduction and explanation in the sciences of the mind and brain."

-Kinesis