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From Psychology to Neuroscience : A New Reductive Account / Patrice Soom.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Epistemische Studien / Epistemic Studies : Philosophy of Science, Cognition and Mind ; 21Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (318 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110322255
  • 9783110322620
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 158.1
LOC classification:
  • B105.M53 S66 2011
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE PROBLEM OF MENTAL CAUSATION -- 3. ONTOLOGICAL REDUCTIONISM -- 4. PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE -- 5. EPISTEMOLOGICAL REDUCTIONISM -- 6. REDUCTION BY MEANS OF FUNCTIONAL SUB-TYPES -- 7. REDUCTION OF PSYCHOLOGY TO NEUROSCIENCE: CASES STUDIES -- 8. FINAL REMARKS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: This book explores the mind-body issue from both the perspectives of philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. Starting from the problem of mental causation, it provides an overview of the contemporary metaphysical discussion and argues in favour of the token-identity thesis, as the only position that can account for the causal efficacy of the mental. Showing furthermore that this ontological reductionism is not dissociable from epistemological reductionism, the author applies a new strategy of inter-theoretic reduction, which is compatible with the multiple realizability of mental properties. Using functionally defined sub-types, this account establishes a conservative reduction of psychology to neuroscience, which vindicates both the scientific legitimacy and the theoretical indispensability of psychology. This account is illustrated by several empirical examples borrowed from contemporary neuroscience.
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE PROBLEM OF MENTAL CAUSATION -- 3. ONTOLOGICAL REDUCTIONISM -- 4. PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE -- 5. EPISTEMOLOGICAL REDUCTIONISM -- 6. REDUCTION BY MEANS OF FUNCTIONAL SUB-TYPES -- 7. REDUCTION OF PSYCHOLOGY TO NEUROSCIENCE: CASES STUDIES -- 8. FINAL REMARKS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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This book explores the mind-body issue from both the perspectives of philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. Starting from the problem of mental causation, it provides an overview of the contemporary metaphysical discussion and argues in favour of the token-identity thesis, as the only position that can account for the causal efficacy of the mental. Showing furthermore that this ontological reductionism is not dissociable from epistemological reductionism, the author applies a new strategy of inter-theoretic reduction, which is compatible with the multiple realizability of mental properties. Using functionally defined sub-types, this account establishes a conservative reduction of psychology to neuroscience, which vindicates both the scientific legitimacy and the theoretical indispensability of psychology. This account is illustrated by several empirical examples borrowed from contemporary neuroscience.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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