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Philosophy and Neuroscience - A Ruthlessly Reductive Account (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003)
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Philosophy and Neuroscience - A Ruthlessly Reductive Account (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003)
Series: Studies in Brain and Mind, 2
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Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Ruthlessly Reductive Account is the
first book-length treatment of philosophical issues and
implications in current cellular and molecular neuroscience. John
Bickle articulates a philosophical justification for investigating
lower level neuroscientific research and describes a set of
experimental details that have recently yielded the reduction of
memory consolidation to the molecular mechanisms of long-term
potentiation (LTP). These empirical details suggest answers to
recent philosophical disputes over the nature and possibility of
psycho-neural scientific reduction, including the multiple
realization challenge, mental causation, and relations across
explanatory levels. Bickle concludes by examining recent work in
cellular neuroscience pertaining to features of conscious
experience, including the cellular basis of working memory, the
effects of explicit selective attention on single-cell activity in
visual cortex, and sensory experiences induced by cortical
microstimulation. This final chapter poses a challenge both to
mysterians, who insist that empirical science cannot address
particular features of consciousness, and to cognitivists, who
insist that addressing consciousness scientifically will require
experimental and theoretical resources that go beyond those used in
neuroscience's cellular and molecular core. Bickle develops all
scientific and philosophical concepts in detail, making this book
accessible to specialists, graduate students, and advanced
undergraduates in either philosophy or the empirical brain and
cognitive sciences. Philosophers of science, mind, neuroscience,
and psychology, neuroscientists working at a variety of levels, and
cognitive scientists-or anyone interested in interactions between
contemporary philosophy and science and the nature of
reduction-in-practice that informs current mainstream
neuroscience-will find discussions pertinent to their concerns.
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