Explaining the Brain

Carl F. Craver

ISBN 10: 0199568227 / ISBN 13: 9780199568222

Verlag: Oxford University Press, GB, 2009

Beschreibung

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 Huxley's 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.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9780199568222

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Explaining the Brain
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, GB
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0199568227
• ISBN-13: 9780199568222
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: New
• Gewicht: 496 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

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 L.T.P. 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Carl F. Craver is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis.