LEADER 05260nam 22007094a 450 001 9910973999303321 005 20250829221450.0 010 $a9780191538445 010 $a0191538442 010 $a0-19-171507-7 010 $a9786611155339 010 $a0-19-153844-2 010 $a1-4356-2412-2 010 $a1-281-15533-0 010 $a0-19-956822-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7035447 035 $a(CKB)24235084800041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC716736 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL716736 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10211798 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL115533 035 $a(OCoLC)731646896 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7035447 035 $a(OCoLC)191671966 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924235084800041 100 $a20061226d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aExplaining the brain $emechanisms and the mosaic unity of neuroscience /$fCarl F. Craver 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford $cClarendon Press ;$aNew York : Oxford University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (xx, 308 pages) $cillustrations 311 08$a9780199299317 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [272]-291) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- 1. Introduction: Starting with Neuroscience -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Explanations in Neuroscience Describe Mechanisms -- 3. Explanations in Neuroscience are Multilevel -- 4. Explanations in Neuroscience Integrate Multiple Fields -- 5. Criteria of Adequacy for an Account of Explanation -- 2. Explanation and Causal Relevance -- 1. Introduction -- 2. How Calcium Explains Neurotransmitter Release -- 3. Explanation and Representation -- 4. The Covering-Law Model -- 5. The Unification Model -- 6. But What About the Hodgkin and Huxley Model? -- 7. Conclusion -- 3. Causal Relevance and Manipulation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Mechanism of Long-Term Potentiation -- 3. Causation as Transmission -- 3.1. Transmission and causal relevance -- 3.2. Omission and prevention -- 4. Causation and Mechanical Connection -- 5. Manipulation and Causation -- 5.1. Invariance, fragility, and contingency -- 5.2. Manipulation and criteria for explanation -- 5.3. Manipulation, omission, and prevention -- 6. Conclusion -- 4. The Norms of Mechanistic Explanation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two Normative Distinctions -- 3. Explaining the Action Potential -- 4. The Explanandum Phenomenon -- 5. Components -- 6. Activities -- 7. Organization -- 8. Constitutive Relevance -- 8.1. Relevance and the boundaries of mechanisms -- 8.2. Interlevel experiments and constitutive relevance -- 8.3. Constitutive relevance as mutual manipulability -- 9. Conclusion -- 5. A Field-Guide to Levels -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Levels of Spatial Memory -- 3. A Field-Guide to Levels -- 3.1. Levels of science (units and products) -- 3.2. Levels of nature -- 3.3. Levels of mechanisms -- 4. Conclusion -- 6. Nonfundamental Explanation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Causal Relevance and Making a Difference -- 3. Contrasts and Switch-points. 327 $a4. Causal Powers at Higher Levels of Mechanisms -- 5. Causal Relevance at Higher Levels of Realization -- 6. Conclusion -- 7. The Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reduction and the History of Neuroscience -- 2.1. LTP's origins: not a top-down search but intralevel integration -- 2.2. The mechanistic shift -- 2.3. Mechanism as a working hypothesis -- 3. Intralevel Integration and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience -- 3.1. The space of possible mechanisms -- 3.2. Specific constraints on the space of possible mechanisms -- 3.3. Reduction and the intralevel integration of fields -- 4. Interlevel Integration and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience -- 4.1. What is interlevel integration? -- 4.2. Constraints on interlevel integration -- 4.3. Mosaic interlevel integration -- 5. Conclusion: The Epistemic Function of the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y. 330 $aCarl Craver investigates what we are doing when we use neuroscience to explain what's going on in the brain. When does an explanation succeed and when does it fail? Craver offers explicit standards for successful explanation of the workings of the brain, on the basis of a systematic view about what neuroscientific explanations are: they are descriptions of mechanisms. 517 3 $aMechanisms and the mosaic unity of neuroscience 606 $aNeurosciences$xPhilosophy 606 $aBrain$xPhilosophy 606 $aNeurosciences 606 $aPhilosophy 606 $aNeurosciences$3(DNLM)D009488 606 $aPhilosophy$3(DNLM)D010684 615 0$aNeurosciences$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aBrain$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aNeurosciences. 615 0$aPhilosophy. 615 12$aNeurosciences 615 12$aPhilosophy 676 $a612.8 700 $aCraver$b Carl F.$0504566 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973999303321 996 $aExplaining the brain$9808654 997 $aUNINA