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Autore |
Chirimuuta M (Mazviita) |
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Titolo |
The brain abstracted : simplification in the history and philosophy of neuroscience / / M. Chirimuuta |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2024] |
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ISBN |
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0-262-37862-0 |
0-262-37863-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (374 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Neurology |
Neurons |
Neurosciences - Philosophy |
Cognitive science |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Introduction -- 2. Footholds -- Part II 3. The Reflex theory: misleading simplicity in early neuroscience -- 4. Your brain is like a computer -- 5. Ideal patterns and "Simple" cells -- 6. Why "Neural Representations?" -- 7. The Heraclitean brain -- Part III 8. Prediction, comprehension, and the limits of science -- 9. Revisiting the fallacy of misplaced concreteness -- 10. Cartesian idealisation. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"An opinionated history of neuroscience, which argues that--due to the brain's complexity--neuroscientific theories have only captured partial truths, and therefore "neurophilosophy" is unlikely to be achieved"-- |
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