Description: Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience : Causal Explanations, Mechanisms and Experimental Manipulations, Paperback by Kästner, Lena, ISBN 3110653915, ISBN-13 9783110653915, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
How do cognitive neuroscientists explain phenomena like memory or language processing? This book examines the different kinds of experiments and manipulative research strategies involved in understanding and eventually explaining such phenomena. Against this background, it evaluates contemporary accounts of scientific explanation, specifically the mechanistic and interventionist accounts, and finds them to be crucially incomplete. Besides, mechanisms and interventions cannot actually be combined in the way usually done in the literature. This book offers solutions to both these problems based on insights from experimental practice. It defends a new reading of the interventionist account, highlights the importance of non-interventionist studies for scientific inquiry, and supplies a taxonomy of experiments that makes it easy to see how the gaps in contemporary accounts of scientific explanation can be filled. Th concludes that a truly empirically adequate philosophy of science must take into account a much wider range of experimental research than has been done to date. With the taxonomy provided, this book serves a stepping-stone leading into a new era of philosophy of science—for cognitive neuroscience and beyond.
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Book Title: Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience : Causal Explanations, Mecha
Number of Pages: 249 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience : Causal Explanations, Mechanisms and Experimental Manipulations
Publisher: DE Gruyter Gmbh, Walter
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology, Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Epistemology, General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.6 Oz
Subject Area: Philosophy, Science, Psychology
Author: Lena Kästner
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
