The Matter of the Mind : Philosophical Essays on Psychology, Neuroscience and Reduction

by Editor: Maurice Schouten (Tilburg University, USA); Editor: Huib Looren de Jong (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands)

• ISBN13: 9781405172769
• ISBN10: 1405172762
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Matter of the Mind addresses and illuminates the relationship between psychology and neuroscience by focusing on the topic of reduction. Written by leading philosophers in the field Discusses recent theorizing in the mind-brain sciences and reviews and weighs the evidence in favour of reductionism against the backdrop of recent important advances within psychology and the neurosciences Collects the latest work on central topics where neuroscience is now making inroads in traditional psychological terrain, such as adaptive behaviour, reward systems, consciousness, and social cognition.

Table of Contents

Contributors

Preface and Acknowledgments

Mind Matters: The Roots of Reductionism

Metaphysics of Science

Functionalism and Psychological Reductionism: Friends, Not Foes

Some Metaphysical Anxieties of Reductionism

The Metaphysics of Mechanisms and the Challenge of the New Reductionism

Reductionism, Embodiment, and the Generality of Psychology

Philosophical Accounts of Reduction, Mechanism, Co-evolution

Reduction without the Structures

Reinforcing the Three ôRös: Reduction, Reception, and Replacement

Reducing Psychology while Maintaining its Autonomy via Mechanistic Explanations

Enriching Philosophical Models of Cross-Scientific Relations: Incorporating Diachronic Theories

Mechanisms of Mind

Coupling, Emergence, and Explanation

Is Psychological Explanation Going Extinct?

Who Says You CanÆt Do a Molecular Biology of Consciousness?

Mind Reading and Mirror Neurons: Exploring Reduction

Name Index

Subject Index

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