The matter of the mind : philosophical essays on psychology, neuroscience, and reduction /
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| Imprint: | Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007. |
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| Description: | x, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6251021 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: The Roots of Reductionism Maurice Schouten University of Tilburg
- I. Metaphysical Issues
- 2. A Metaphysical and Epistemological Framework For Psychological Reductionism Andrew Melnyk
- 3. The Metaphysics of Mechanisms and the Challenge of the New Reductionism
- 4. Some Metaphysical Anxieties of Reductionism
- II. The New Mechanicism
- 5. Mechanistic Explanation: A Multi-Level Enterprise
- 6. Supervenience, Structuralist Reduction, and the Brain Reward System
- 7. Reducing Two Features of Phenomenal Consciousness via Molecular Neuroscience
- III. Emergence and Embodiment
- 8. Reduction and the Embodied Mind
- 9. The Devil Is In The Details Valerie
- 10. Coupling, Emergence, and Explanation
- IV. Coevolution and Explanatory Pluralism
- 11. Reduction without the Structures
- 12. Reduction: The Cheshire Cat Problem and a Return to Roots
- 13. Enriching Philosophical Models of Cross-Scientific Relations: Incorporating Diachronic Theorie
- 14. Mirror Neurons and Mind Reading: A Case of Successful Reduction?