Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience - Causal Explanations, Mechanisms and Experimental Manipulations (Paperback)

How do cognitive neuroscientists explain phenomena like memory or language processing? This book examines the different kinds of experiments and manipulative research strategies involved in understanding and eventually explaining such phenomena. Against this background, it evaluates contemporary accounts of scientific explanation, specifically the mechanistic and interventionist accounts, and finds them to be crucially incomplete. Besides, mechanisms and interventions cannot actually be combined in the way usually done in the literature. This book offers solutions to both these problems based on insights from experimental practice. It defends a new reading of the interventionist account, highlights the importance of non-interventionist studies for scientific inquiry, and supplies a taxonomy of experiments that makes it easy to see how the gaps in contemporary accounts of scientific explanation can be filled. The book concludes that a truly empirically adequate philosophy of science must take into account a much wider range of experimental research than has been done to date. With the taxonomy provided, this book serves a stepping-stone leading into a new era of philosophy of science-for cognitive neuroscience and beyond.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	July 2019
First published:	2017
Authors:	Lena Kastner
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Paperback (DE)
Pages:	249
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-065391-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Promotions
LSN:	3-11-065391-5
Barcode:	9783110653915

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