Carl F. Craver

EXPLAINING THE BRAIN

MECHANISMS AND THE MOSAIC UNITY OF NEUROSCIENCE

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Produktbeschreibung

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 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9780199568222
• ISBN-10: 0199568227
• Artikelnr.: 26082538

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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