03454nam 2200697 a 450 991045271250332120200520144314.03-11-032262-510.1515/9783110322620(CKB)2550000001097105(EBL)1215561(OCoLC)851972109(SSID)ssj0000801344(PQKBManifestationID)11460301(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000801344(PQKBWorkID)10773549(PQKB)11664093(MiAaPQ)EBC1215561(DE-B1597)210976(OCoLC)853238569(OCoLC)978667319(DE-B1597)9783110322620(Au-PeEL)EBL1215561(CaPaEBR)ebr10728773(CaONFJC)MIL503639(EXLCZ)99255000000109710520130717d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFrom psychology to neuroscience[electronic resource] a new reductive account /Patrice SoomFrankfurt ;New Brunswick Ontos Verlag20111 online resource (322 p.)Epistemische Studien : Schriften zur Erkenntnis- und Wissenschaftstheorie ;Bd. 21Description based upon print version of record.3-11-032225-0 1-299-72388-8 Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE PROBLEM OF MENTAL CAUSATION -- 3. ONTOLOGICAL REDUCTIONISM -- 4. PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE -- 5. EPISTEMOLOGICAL REDUCTIONISM -- 6. REDUCTION BY MEANS OF FUNCTIONAL SUB-TYPES -- 7. REDUCTION OF PSYCHOLOGY TO NEUROSCIENCE: CASES STUDIES -- 8. FINAL REMARKS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEXThis book explores the mind-body issue from both the perspectives of philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. Starting from the problem of mental causation, it provides an overview of the contemporary metaphysical discussion and argues in favour of the token-identity thesis, as the only position that can account for the causal efficacy of the mental. Showing furthermore that this ontological reductionism is not dissociable from epistemological reductionism, the author applies a new strategy of inter-theoretic reduction, which is compatible with the multiple realizability of mental properties. Using functionally defined sub-types, this account establishes a conservative reduction of psychology to neuroscience, which vindicates both the scientific legitimacy and the theoretical indispensability of psychology. This account is illustrated by several empirical examples borrowed from contemporary neuroscience. Epistemische Studien (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ;Bd. 21.Mind and bodyPhilosophy of mindPsychologyPhilosophyNeurosciencesPhilosophyElectronic books.Mind and body.Philosophy of mind.PsychologyPhilosophy.NeurosciencesPhilosophy.158.1Soom Patrice1043462MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452712503321From psychology to neuroscience2468454UNINA