Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience

Released on by Lena Kästner
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  • Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience Book Detail

  • Author : Lena Kästner
  • Release Date : 2017-06-12
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Genre : Philosophy
  • Pages : 268
  • ISBN 13 : 3110530945
  • File Size : 41,41 MB
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Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience by Lena Kästner PDF Summary

Book Description: How do cognitive neuroscientists explain phenomena like memory or language processing? This book examines the different kinds of experiments and manipulative research strategies involved in understanding and eventually explaining such phenomena. Against this background, it evaluates contemporary accounts of scientific explanation, specifically the mechanistic and interventionist accounts, and finds them to be crucially incomplete. Besides, mechanisms and interventions cannot actually be combined in the way usually done in the literature. This book offers solutions to both these problems based on insights from experimental practice. It defends a new reading of the interventionist account, highlights the importance of non-interventionist studies for scientific inquiry, and supplies a taxonomy of experiments that makes it easy to see how the gaps in contemporary accounts of scientific explanation can be filled. The book concludes that a truly empirically adequate philosophy of science must take into account a much wider range of experimental research than has been done to date. With the taxonomy provided, this book serves a stepping-stone leading into a new era of philosophy of science—for cognitive neuroscience and beyond.

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