Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience - Couverture souple

Craver, Carl F.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199568227 ISBN 13 : 9780199568222

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

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 L.T.P. 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199568227
• ISBN 13: 9780199568222
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 330
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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