Explanation and Integration in Mind and Brain Science 1st Edition David M. Kaplan

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• ISBN 10: 0191508713
• ISBN 13: 9780191508714
• Author: David M. Kaplan

This collection brings together a set of new papers that advance the debate concerning the nature of explanation in mind and brain science, and help to clarify the prospects for bonafide integration across these fields. Long a topic of debate among philosophers and scientists alike, there is growing appreciation that understanding the complex relationship between the psychological sciences and the neurosciences, especially how their respective explanatory frameworks interrelate, is of fundamental importance for achieving progress across these scientific domains. Traditional philosophical discussions tend to construe the relationship between them in stark terms – either they are related in terms of complete independence (i.e., autonomy) or complete dependence (i.e., reduction), leaving little room for more interesting relations such as that of mutually beneficial interaction or integration. A unifying thread across the diverse set of contributions to this volume is the rejection of the assumption that no stable middle ground exists between these two extremes, and common embrace of the idea that these sciences are partially dependent on or constrained by one another. By addressing whether the explanatory patterns employed across these domains are similar or different in kind, and to what extent they inform and constrain each another, this volume helps to deepen our understanding of the prospects for successfully integrating mind and brain science.

Table contents:

1: Integrating Mind and Brain Science: A Field Guide

2: Neuroscience, Psychology, Reduction, and Functional Analysis

3: The Explanatory Autonomy of Cognitive Models

4: Explanation in Neurobiology: An Interventionist Perspective

5: The Whole Story: Explanatory Autonomy and Convergent Evolution

6: Brains and Beliefs: On the Scientific Integration of Folk Psychology

7: Function-Theoretic Explanation and the Search for Neural Mechanisms

8: Neural Computation, Multiple Realizability, and the Prospects for Mechanistic Explanation

9: Marr’s Computational Level and Delineating Phenomena

10: Multiple Realization, Autonomy, and Integration

11: A Unified Mechanistic Account of Teleological Functions for Psychology and Neuroscience

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