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Author : John Bickle
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780262024327
John Bickle presents a new type of reductionism, one that is stronger than one-way dependency yet sidesteps the arguments that sank classical reductionism.
Author : Professor and Head Department of Philosophy and Religion John Bickle
Publisher : Bradford Book
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262268530
John Bickle presents a new type of reductionism, one that is stronger than one-way dependency yet sidesteps the arguments that sank classical reductionism.
Author : J. Bickle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9401002371
Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Ruthlessly Reductive Account is the first book-length treatment of philosophical issues and implications in current cellular and molecular neuroscience. John Bickle articulates a philosophical justification for investigating "lower level" neuroscientific research and describes a set of experimental details that have recently yielded the reduction of memory consolidation to the molecular mechanisms of long-term potentiation (LTP). These empirical details suggest answers to recent philosophical disputes over the nature and possibility of psycho-neural scientific reduction, including the multiple realization challenge, mental causation, and relations across explanatory levels. Bickle concludes by examining recent work in cellular neuroscience pertaining to features of conscious experience, including the cellular basis of working memory, the effects of explicit selective attention on single-cell activity in visual cortex, and sensory experiences induced by cortical microstimulation.
Author : Raphael van Riel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3319041622
This volume investigates the notion of reduction. Building on the idea that philosophers employ the term ‘reduction’ to reconcile diversity and directionality with unity, without relying on elimination, the book offers a powerful explication of an “ontological”, notion of reduction the extension of which is (primarily) formed by properties, kinds, individuals, or processes. It argues that related notions of reduction, such as theory-reduction and functional reduction, should be defined in terms of this explication. Thereby, the book offers a coherent framework, which sheds light on the history of the various reduction debates in the philosophy of science and in the philosophy of mind, and on related topics such as reduction and unification, the notion of a scientific level, and physicalism. The book takes its point of departure in the examination of a puzzle about reduction. To illustrate, the book takes as an example the reduction of water. If water reduces to H2O, then water is identical to H2O – thus we get unity. Unity does not come at the price of elimination – claiming that water reduces to H2O, we do not thereby claim that there is no water. But what about diversity and directionality? Intuitively, there should be a difference between water and H2O, such that we get diversity. This is required for there to be directionality: in a sense, if water reduces to H2O, then H2O is prior to, or more basic than water. At least, if water reduces to H2O, then H2O does not reduce to water. But how can this be, if water is identical to H2O? The book shows that the application of current models of reduction does not solve this puzzle, and proposes a new coherent definition, according to which unity is tied to identity, diversity is descriptive in nature, and directionality is the directionality of explanation.
Author : Alexander Hieke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3110328852
The investigation of the mind has been one of the major concerns of our philosophical tradition and it still is a dominant subject in modern philosophy as well as in science. Many philosophers in the scientific tradition want to solve the "puzzles of the mind". But many philosophers in the very same tradition do regard these puzzles as puzzles of the brain. So, whilst the former think of the mental as something of its own kind, the latter deny that philosophy of mind has to do with anything else but the brain. And then there are those who think that reduction is the way to go: maybe the mental is brain-dependent and hence reducible to the physical, in some way. This volume collects contributions comprising all those points of view, including articles by William Bechtel, Jerry Fodor, Jaegwon Kim, Joëlle Proust and Patrick Suppes.
Author : Markus I. Eronen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3110332132
The notion of reduction continues to play a key role in philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science. Supporters of reductionism claim that psychological properties or explanations reduce to neural properties or explanations, while antireductionists claim that such reductions are not possible. In this book, I apply recent developments in philosophy of science, particularly the mechanistic explanation paradigm and the interventionist theory of causation, to reassess the traditional approaches to reduction in philosophy of mind. I then elaborate and defend a pluralistic framework for philosophy of mind, and show how reductionist ideas can be incorporated into it. This leads to a novel synthesis of pluralism and reductionism that I call pluralistic physicalism.
Author : Jakob Hohwy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 30,43 MB
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199211531
Is the mind nothing but neural firings in the brain? Are we just a bunch of neurons? If the mind is just the brain, then how can we act as genuine, responsible agents in the world? Being Reduced attempts to understand these questions.
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Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Act (Philosophy)
ISBN : 9789042012561
Author : John Bickle
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0195304780
This title is a collection of interdisciplinary research from contributors including both philosophers and neuroscientists. Topics covered include the neurobiology of learning and memory perception and sensation, neurocomputational modelling neuroanatomy, neuroethics, and neurology and clinical neuropsychology.
Author : Sacha Bem
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780761942016
This thoroughly revised edition of the classic textbook explores a wide range of problems in psychology, philosophy, cognitive and brains sciences, identifying the major topics, debates, and controversies and presenting them in a balanced and accessible manner for students.