Maurice Schouten / Huib Looren De Jong

The Matter of the Mind

Philosophical Essays on Psychology, Neuroscience and Reduction
Herausgeber: Schouten, Maurice; Looren de Jong, Huib

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Matter of the Mind addresses and illuminates fundamental questions about the relationship between psychology and its associated disciplines by focusing on the topic of reduction. After decades of an "antireductionist consensus" in the sciences, reductionism has become credible, even fashionable, again due first to new empirical evidence supporting reductionist claims, and secondly to a "new wave" model of reduction which overcomes many of the conceptual difficulties which previously discredited it. These original articles, written by expert philosophers on the subject of reduction, discuss recent theorizing in the mind-brain sciences, and review and weigh the evidence in favor of the new wave of reduction against the backdrop of recent important advances within psychology and the neurosciences. This volume collects the latest work on central topics where neuroscience is now making inroads in traditional psychological terrain, such as adaptive behavior, reward systems, consciousness, and social cognition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Stax Textbooks
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 145mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781405144438
• ISBN-10: 1405144432
• Artikelnr.: 21517005

Autorenporträt

Maurice Schouten is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tilburg. He is co-author of research articles in Theory & Psychology, New Ideas in Psychology, Zygon, Philosophical Psychology, Synthese, and the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Huib Looren de Jong is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of Naturalism and Psychology (1992) and Theoretical Issues in Psychology (2006, with Sacha Bem), and a number of research articles. He serves as Associate Editor of Theory & Psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors.

Preface and Acknowledgments.

1. Mind Matters: The Roots of Reductionism (Maurice Schoutenand Huib Looren de Jong).

Part I: Metaphysics of Science.

2. Functionalism and Psychological Reductionism: Friends, NotFoes (Andrew Melnyk).

3. Some Metaphysical Anxieties of Reductionism (Thomas W.Polger).

4. The Metaphysics of Mechanisms and the Challenge of the NewReductionism (Carl Gillett).

5. Reductionism, Embodiment, and the Generality of Psychology(Lawrence A. Shapiro).

Part II: Philosophical Accounts of Reduction, Mechanism,Co-evolution.

6. Reduction without the Structures (Robert C.Richardson).

7. Reinforcing the Three "R"s: Reduction, Reception, andReplacement (Ronald Endicott).

8. Reducing Psychology while Maintaining its Autonomy viaMechanistic Explanations (William Bechtel).

9. Enriching Philosophical Models of Cross-Scientific Relations:Incorporating Diachronic Theories (Robert N. McCauley).

Part III: Mechanisms of Mind.

10. Coupling, Emergence, and Explanation (AndyClark).

11. Is Psychological Explanation Going Extinct? (Cory D.Wright).

12. Who Says You Can't Do a Molecular Biology of Consciousness?(John Bickle).

13. Mind Reading and Mirror Neurons: Exploring Reduction(Huib Looren de Jong and Maurice Schouten).

Name Index.

Subject Index.

Rezensionen

"The Matter of the Mind is a well organized bookwhich hosts contributions on the main subjects about philosophy ofmind and it is definitely worthwhile reading." (Metapsychology, 14 May 2013)"The editors, and the contributors, are to be congratulated. Thisis the best collection on the nature of intertheoretic reductionever published, especially as those issues bear on the unfoldingrelations between the neurosciences on the one hand, and psychologyand the social sciences on the other. Thanks to these papers, allof us (yours truly included) are going to be rethinking our viewson reduction." Paul M. Churchland, University of California, SanDiego

"Parties on both sides of the reductionism wars will benefitfrom this exciting collection. The editors and their contributorswell represent the cutting edges of the philosophy of mind and thephilosophy of science regarding the reducibility (or lack thereof)of minds to brains." Pete Mandik, William PatersonUniversity

"An outstanding vehicle by which to learn about modernreductionism, the relation of neuroscience to psychology, and howthey can cooperate rather than compete."PsycCritiques