Explaining the brain: mechanisms and the mosaic unity of neuroscience
Craver, Carl F.
What distinguishes good explanations in neuroscience from bad? Carl F. Craverconstructs 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 andHuxley's model of the action potential and LTP as a putative explanation for different kinds of memory), as well as recent philosophical work on the natureof 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. ÍNDICE: Preface; 1. Introduction: Starting With Neuroscience; 2. Explanation and Causal Relevance; 3. Causal Relevance and Manipulation; 4. The Norms ofMechanistic Explanation; 5. A Field-Guide to Levels; 6. Nonfundamental Explanation; 7. The Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience
- ISBN: 978-0-19-956822-2
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 328
- Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés