Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience
| AUTHOR | Craver; Craver, Carl F. |
| PUBLISHER | OUP UK (08/17/2009) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
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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.
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ISBN-13:
9780199568222
ISBN-10:
0199568227
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Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
328
Carton Quantity:
24
Product Dimensions:
6.10 x 0.70 x 9.10 inches
Weight:
1.10 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Index,
Table of Contents,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
US
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BISAC Categories
Medical | Neuroscience
Medical | Mind & Body
Medical | Neuropsychology
Dewey Decimal:
612.8
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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.
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