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Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind
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This volume provides a cohesive and comprehensive case that cognitive neuroscience is maturing into an integrated, interdisciplinary science that is transforming our understanding of the mind.
The rise of cognitive neuroscience has prompted a rethinking of levels, computation, representation, psychological explanation, and the relation between psychology and neuroscience. Despite these advances, many philosophers and scientists of the mind continue to write as though cognitive neuroscience didn't exist and psychology remains autonomous from neuroscience or, perhaps, they maintain that cognitive neuroscience has not deepened our understanding of the mind. The chapters in this volume showcase important ways in which cognitive neuroscience makes a profound difference to our understanding of the mind. The contributors address a wide range of topics, including explanation, computation, representation, inference, emotion, language, intention, and thought. Together, they demonstrate the ways in which cognitive neuroscience supersedes traditional cognitive science and supports a unified, integrated, multilevel, mechanistic, neurocomputational account of the mind.
Neurocognitive Foundations of Mind is essential reading for scholars and advanced students interested in the foundations of the philosophy of mind and the mind sciences.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of contributors
- 1 New foundations for the philosophy of mind and the mind sciences
- 2 A neuroecological architecture for situated cognizing systems
- 3 Confirmation and explanation in neuroscience: Reassessing the relationship between functional and mechanistic approaches
- 4 Cognitive ontology in terms of cognitive homology: The role of brain, behavior, and environment for individuating cognitive categories
- 5 Representational vehicles, from regions to cells
- 6 Frames of discovery and the formats of cognitive representation
- 7 Structural representation as complexity management
- 8 The mind-brain is a computer, but what is (neural) computation?
- 9 Inference in (neuro)cognitive systems
- 10 Interventionist methods for interpreting deep neural networks
- 11 From cognitive semantics to neurosemantics: The neuroscience turn in the empirical study of word meaning
- 12 Talking to ourselves: Inner speech and natural language as a language of thought
- 13 Working memory and the neural basis of intention
- 14 Basic emotion theory meets the brain: Radicals and reformists in the arena of neuroscience
- Index