Explaining the brain [[electronic resource] ] : mechanisms and the mosaic unity of neuroscience / / Carl F. Craver

• Autore: Craver Carl F
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Clarendon Press; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Disciplina: 612.8
• Soggetto topico: Neurosciences - Philosophy; Brain - Philosophy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-291) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Explaining the brain
• ISBN: 0-19-956822-7; 1-281-15533-0; 9786611155339; 0-19-153844-2; 1-4356-2412-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451907303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II