Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience

ISBN-13: 9780199568222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 328 str.

Carl F Craver

Opis

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 Huxley'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 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.

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

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