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UNINA9910451907303321 |
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Autore |
Craver Carl F |
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Titolo |
Explaining the brain [[electronic resource] ] : mechanisms and the mosaic unity of neuroscience / / Carl F. Craver |
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Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
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New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-956822-7 |
1-281-15533-0 |
9786611155339 |
0-19-153844-2 |
1-4356-2412-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (329 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Neurosciences - Philosophy |
Brain - Philosophy |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-291) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Figures and Tables; 1. Introduction: Starting with Neuroscience; 2. Explanation and Causal Relevance; 3. Causal Relevance and Manipulation; 4. The Norms of Mechanistic Explanation; 5. A Field-Guide to Levels; 6. Nonfundamental Explanation; 7. The Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 ofmemory), as well as recent philosophical work on the nature of scientific explanation. Readers in neuroscience, psyc |
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