| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 506 pages : illustrations) |
| Series |
Studies in brain and mind ; volume 17 |
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Studies in brain and mind ; v. 17.
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| Contents |
Introduction: New Challenges in the Philosophy of Neuroscience -- Part I. Explanation and Prediction -- Modelling Bayesian Computation in the Brain: Unification, Explanation, and Constraints -- Prediction and Topological Models in Neuroscience -- Circuital and Developmental Explanations for the Cortex -- Data Mining the Brain to Decode the Mind -- Part II. Concepts and Tools -- Evolving Concepts of "Hierarchy" in Systems Neuroscience -- Fundamental Theories in Neuroscience: Why Neural Darwinism Encompasses Neural Reuse -- Saving Data Analysis: Epistemic Friction and Progress in Neuroimaging Research -- Neural Reuse and the Nature of Evolutionary Constraints -- Behavior Considered as an Enabling Constraint -- Part III. Metaphysical Challenges -- Your Brain Is Like a Computer: Function, Analogy, Simplification -- The Mind-Body Problem 3.0 -- Psychoneural Isomorphism: From Metaphysics to Robustness -- Folk Psychological and Neurocognitive Ontologies -- Part IV. Mechanistic explanations -- Integration and the Mechanistic Triad: Producing, Underlying and Maintaining Mechanistic Explanations -- Constraints on Localization and Decomposition as Explanatory Strategies in the Biological Sciences -- Compare and Contrast: How to Assess the Completeness of Mechanistic Explanation -- Part V Computation and Representations -- (Mis)computation in Computational Psychiatry -- What Is the Job of the Job Description Challenge? A Study in Esoteric and Exoteric Semantics -- Categorically Perceiving Motor Actions -- On the Possibility of Multimodal Bodily Immunity to Error Through Misidentification |
| Summary |
This volume brings together new papers advancing contemporary debates in foundational, conceptual, and methodological issues in cognitive neuroscience. The different perspectives presented in each chapter have previously been discussed between the authors, as the volume builds on the experience of Neural Mechanisms (NM) Online webinar series on the philosophy of neuroscience organized by the editors of this volume. The contributed chapters pertain to five core areas in current philosophy of neuroscience. It surveys the novel forms of explanation (and prediction)developed in cognitive neuroscience, and looks at new concepts, methods and techniques used in the field. The book also highlights the metaphysical challenges raised by recent neuroscience and demonstrates the relation between neuroscience and mechanistic philosophy. Finally, the book dives into the issue of neural computations and representations. Assembling contributions from leading philosophers of neuroscience, this work draws upon the expertise of both established scholars and promising early career researchers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 10, 2020) |
| Subject |
Neurosciences -- Philosophy
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Neurosciences -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Calzavarini, Fabrizio, editor
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Viola, Marco, editor
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| ISBN |
3030540928 |
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9783030540920 |
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