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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 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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Craver Carl F  
Oxford, : Clarendon Press
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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
Craver Carl F  
Oxford, : Clarendon Press
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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.  
Oxford, : Clarendon Press
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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  
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  
Berlin, Germany : , : Diaphanes, , [2020]
Materiale a stampa
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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  
New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008
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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  
New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008
Materiale a stampa
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  
New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008
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