Explaining the Brain : Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience

Name: Explaining the Brain
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199299317
Price: 19600 KES
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ISBN: 9780199299317

by Carl F. Craver

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0199299315

ISBN-13 9780199299317

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 7th, 2007

Print length 330 Pages

Weight 633 grams

Dimensions 24.00 x 16.00 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Philosophy of mind Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology Cognition & cognitive psychology Philosophy of science

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Carl Craver investigates what we are doing when we use neuroscience to explain what's going on in the brain. When does an explanation succeed and when does it fail? Craver offers explicit standards for successful explanation of the workings of the brain, on the basis of a systematic view about what neuroscientific explanations are: they are descriptions of mechanisms.

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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