Explaining the Brain

Zusatztext This book should be of interest not just to those of us who care about philosophy of neuroscience! but also to philosophers of biology and philosophers of mind more generally. I expect it to shape debate for a long time to come. Informationen zum Autor Carl F. Craver is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Carl F. Craver investigates what we are doing when we use neuroscience to explain what's going on in the brain. When does an explanation succeed and when does it fail? Craver offers explicit standards for successful explanation of the workings of the brain, on the basis of a systematic view about what neuroscientific explanations are. 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

Product details

• Authors: Craver, Carl F. Craver, Carl F. (Washington University Craver, Craver Carl F.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.07.2009
• EAN: 9780199568222
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956822-2
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Philosophy of Mind, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology, Philosophy of Science, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology