Philosophy of cognitive neuroscience : causal explanations, mechanisms, and experimental manipulations / / Lena Kästner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792929403321
• Autore: Kästner Lena <1986->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 3-11-052920-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Epistemic Studies, , 2512-5168 ; ; Volume 37
• Classificazione: CC 5680
• Disciplina: 612.8/233
• Soggetti: Cognitive neuroscience - Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: Stage Setting -- 2. Braining Up Psychology -- 3. The Life of Mechanisms -- 4. The Interventionist View -- 5. Intermezzo: What's at Stake? -- Part II: Puzzles -- 6. The Unsuccessful Marriage -- 7. Causation vs. Constitution -- 8. Beyond Mutual Manipulability -- 9. Interventionism's Short-Sightedness -- 10. Intermezzo: Well Then? -- Part III: Shopping for Solutions -- 11. Fixing Interventionism -- 12. Mere Interactions -- 13. Excursus: A Perspectival View -- 14. Mere Interactions at Work: A Catalog of Experiments -- 15. Conclusions -- References -- Key Terms -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. The book 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.

[STATISTICAL Abstract 1992] / State of Bahrain Central Statistics Organisation Directorate of Statistics

• Record Nr.: UNIORUON00012379
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bahrain, : Publishing House W.L.L., 1992 629 p. ; 28 cm
• Classificazione: GEO C
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Who will do the science of the future? : a symposium on careers of women in science / / National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Women in Science and Engineering, Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel, National Research Council

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910960101903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c2000
• ISBN: 9780309171380; 0309171385; 9780309501705; 0309501709
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (104 p.)
• Collana: Compass series
• Disciplina: 500/.82
• Soggetti: Women in science; Women scientists - Vocational guidance; Women scientists
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Papers presented at a symposium of the 136th Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""WELCOME""; ""PLENARY PANEL I: THE NEXT GENERATION: SCIENCE FOR ALL STUDENTS""; ""Speaker Introductions""; ""A Plan, A Strategy for K-12""; ""Mentoring Minority Women in Science: Special Struggles""; ""Controversy, The Internet, and Deformed Frogs: Making Science Accessible""; ""PLENARY PANEL II: AN IN-DEPTH VIEW OF COMPUTER SCIENCE""; ""Speaker Introductions""; ""The Declining Percentage of Women in Computer Science: An Academic View""; ""Women in Information Technology: A View from Industry""; ""PLENARY PANEL III: STRATEGIES AND POLICIES TO RECRUIT, RETAIN, AND ADVANCE WOMEN SCIENTISTS""""Speaker Introductions""; ""A Tentative Theory of Unconscious Discrimination Against Women in Science""; ""The Mentoring Program for Women in Mathematics""; ""Strategies and Policies to Recruit, Retain, and Advance Women Scientists""; ""PLENARY PANEL IV: ADVANCING WOMEN INTO SCIENCE ; LEADERSHIP""; ""Speaker Introduction""; ""Advancing Women Into Science Leadership""; ""Closing Remarks""; ""Question and Answer Comments""; ""Panel I""; ""Panel II""; ""Panel III""
• Sommario/riassunto: Who Will Do the Science of the Future? is the summary of a symposium on careers of women in science. The symposium incorporated three panels of presenters: one focusing on the next generation, Science for All Students; a second that looks in depth at the issues reflected in one particular field of science, computer science, reflecting an in-depth view of academic and industrial computer scientists; and a third that focuses on strategies and policies to recruit, retain, and promote career advancement for women scientists. Lastly, there was a plenary address on how to ensure women continue to advance into positions of leadership in science.