Explaining the brain [[electronic resource] ] : mechanisms and the mosaic unity of neuroscience / / Carl F. Craver
| Explaining the brain [[electronic resource] ] : mechanisms and the mosaic unity of neuroscience / / Carl F. Craver |
| Autore | Craver Carl F |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
| Disciplina | 612.8 |
| Soggetto topico |
Neurosciences - Philosophy
Brain - Philosophy |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| 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 | eng |
| 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 |
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Explaining the brain [[electronic resource] ] : mechanisms and the mosaic unity of neuroscience / / Carl F. Craver
| Explaining the brain [[electronic resource] ] : mechanisms and the mosaic unity of neuroscience / / Carl F. Craver |
| Autore | Craver Carl F |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
| Descrizione fisica | xx, 308 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 612.8 |
| Soggetto topico |
Neurosciences - Philosophy
Brain - Philosophy |
| ISBN |
9780191538445
0191538442 0-19-171507-7 9786611155339 0-19-153844-2 1-4356-2412-2 1-281-15533-0 0-19-956822-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795999403321 |
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Explaining the brain : mechanisms and the mosaic unity of neuroscience / / Carl F. Craver
| Explaining the brain : mechanisms and the mosaic unity of neuroscience / / Carl F. Craver |
| Autore | Craver Carl F. |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 308 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 612.8 |
| Soggetto topico |
Neurosciences - Philosophy
Brain - Philosophy Neurosciences Philosophy |
| ISBN |
9780191538445
0191538442 0-19-171507-7 9786611155339 0-19-153844-2 1-4356-2412-2 1-281-15533-0 0-19-956822-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- 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.
4. 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Mechanisms and the mosaic unity of neuroscience |
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Craver Carl F.
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Was tun mit unserem Gehirn? / / Catherine Malabou
| Was tun mit unserem Gehirn? / / Catherine Malabou |
| Autore | Malabou Catherine |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Germany : , : Diaphanes, , [2020] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (128 pages) |
| Disciplina | 128.2 |
| Collana | hors série |
| Soggetto topico |
Adaptability (Psychology)
Philosophy of mind Brain - Philosophy |
| ISBN | 3-0358-0354-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | ger |
| Nota di contenuto | Was tun mit unserem Gehirn?. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794019103321 |
Malabou Catherine
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| Berlin, Germany : , : Diaphanes, , [2020] | ||
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Was tun mit unserem Gehirn? / / Catherine Malabou
| Was tun mit unserem Gehirn? / / Catherine Malabou |
| Autore | Malabou Catherine |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Germany : , : Diaphanes, , [2020] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (128 pages) |
| Disciplina | 128.2 |
| Collana | hors série |
| Soggetto topico |
Adaptability (Psychology)
Philosophy of mind Brain - Philosophy |
| ISBN | 3-0358-0354-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | ger |
| Nota di contenuto | Was tun mit unserem Gehirn?. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825001303321 |
Malabou Catherine
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| Berlin, Germany : , : Diaphanes, , [2020] | ||
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What should we do with our brain? [[electronic resource] /] / Catherine Malabou ; foreword by Marc Jeannerod ; translated by Sebastian Rand
| What should we do with our brain? [[electronic resource] /] / Catherine Malabou ; foreword by Marc Jeannerod ; translated by Sebastian Rand |
| Autore | Malabou Catherine |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (118 p.) |
| Disciplina | 128/.2 |
| Collana | Perspectives in continental philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy of mind
Brain - Philosophy Cognitive neuroscience - Philosophy Adaptability (Psychology) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-8232-6060-7
1-282-69887-7 9786612698873 0-8232-2954-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | ""Contents""; ""Translator�s Note""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""What Should We Do with Our Brain?""; ""Introduction""; ""Plasticity�s Fields of Action""; ""The Central Power in Crisis""; ""��You Are Your Synapses��""; ""Conclusion: Toward a Biological Alter-globalism""; ""Notes"" |
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Malabou Catherine
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| New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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What should we do with our brain? [[electronic resource] /] / Catherine Malabou ; foreword by Marc Jeannerod ; translated by Sebastian Rand
| What should we do with our brain? [[electronic resource] /] / Catherine Malabou ; foreword by Marc Jeannerod ; translated by Sebastian Rand |
| Autore | Malabou Catherine |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (118 p.) |
| Disciplina | 128/.2 |
| Collana | Perspectives in continental philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy of mind
Brain - Philosophy Cognitive neuroscience - Philosophy Adaptability (Psychology) |
| ISBN |
0-8232-6060-7
1-282-69887-7 9786612698873 0-8232-2954-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | ""Contents""; ""Translator�s Note""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""What Should We Do with Our Brain?""; ""Introduction""; ""Plasticity�s Fields of Action""; ""The Central Power in Crisis""; ""��You Are Your Synapses��""; ""Conclusion: Toward a Biological Alter-globalism""; ""Notes"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780971803321 |
Malabou Catherine
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| New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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What should we do with our brain? / / Catherine Malabou ; foreword by Marc Jeannerod ; translated by Sebastian Rand
| What should we do with our brain? / / Catherine Malabou ; foreword by Marc Jeannerod ; translated by Sebastian Rand |
| Autore | Malabou Catherine |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (118 p.) |
| Disciplina | 128/.2 |
| Collana | Perspectives in continental philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy of mind
Brain - Philosophy Cognitive neuroscience - Philosophy Adaptability (Psychology) |
| ISBN |
9786612698873
9780823260607 0823260607 9781282698871 1282698877 9780823229543 0823229548 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | ""Contents""; ""Translator�s Note""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""What Should We Do with Our Brain?""; ""Introduction""; ""Plasticity�s Fields of Action""; ""The Central Power in Crisis""; ""��You Are Your Synapses��""; ""Conclusion: Toward a Biological Alter-globalism""; ""Notes"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910961685203321 |
Malabou Catherine
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| New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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