The Matter of the Mind
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The Matter of the Mind

Philosophical Essays on Psychology, Neuroscience and Reduction

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eBook - PDF

The Matter of the Mind

Philosophical Essays on Psychology, Neuroscience and Reduction

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. CONTRIBUTORS
  2. PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  3. 1 MIND MATTERS: THE ROOTS OF REDUCTIONISM Maurice Schouten and Huib Looren de Jong
  4. PART I METAPHYSICS OF SCIENCE
  5. 2 FUNCTIONALISM AND PSYCHOLOGICAL REDUCTIONISM: FRIENDS, NOT FOES Andrew Melnyk
  6. 3 SOME METAPHYSICAL ANXIETIES OF REDUCTIONISM Thomas W. Polger
  7. 4 THE METAPHYSICS OF MECHANISMS AND THE CHALLENGE OF THE NEW REDUCTIONISM Carl Gillett
  8. 5 REDUCTIONISM, EMBODIMENT, AND THE GENERALITY OF PSYCHOLOGY Lawrence A. Shapiro
  9. PART II PHILOSOPHICAL ACCOUNTS OF REDUCTIONISM, MECHANISM, AND CO-EVOLUTION
  10. 6 REDUCTION WITHOUT THE STRUCTURES Robert C. Richardson
  11. 7 REINFORCING THE THREE “R”S: REDUCTION, RECEPTION, AND REPLACEMENT Ronald Endicott
  12. 8 REDUCING PSYCHOLOGY WHILE MAINTAINING ITS AUTONOMY VIA MECHANISTIC EXPLANATIONS William Bechtel
  13. 9 ENRICHING PHILOSOPHICAL MODELS OF CROSS-SCIENTIFIC RELATIONS: INCORPORATING DIACHRONIC THEORIES Robert N. McCauley
  14. PART III MECHANISMS OF MIND
  15. 10 COUPLING, EMERGENCE, AND EXPLANATION Andy Clark
  16. 11 IS PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLANATION BECOMING EXTINCT? Cory D. Wright
  17. 12 WHO SAYS YOU CAN’T DO A MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS? John Bickle
  18. 13 MIND READING AND MIRROR NEURONS: EXPLORING REDUCTION Huib Looren de Jong and Maurice Schouten
  19. NAME INDEX
  20. SUBJECT INDEX