TY  - BOOK
AU  - Soom,Patrice
TI  - From Psychology to Neuroscience: A New Reductive Account 
T2  - Epistemische Studien / Epistemic Studies : Philosophy of Science, Cognition and Mind ,
SN  - 9783110322255
AV  - B105.M53 S66 2011
U1  - 158.1 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Mind and body
KW  - Neurosciences
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Philosophy of mind
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Erkenntnistheorie
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Psychologie
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110322620
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110322620
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110322620/original
ER  -