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Format: 1 online resource (268 pages) : , illustrations.

ISBN: 9783110530940 (e-book)

Series Statement: Epistemic Studies, Volume 37

Additional Edition: Print version: Kästner, Lena, 1986- Philosophy of cognitive neuroscience : causal explanations, mechanisms, and experimental manipulations. Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, c2017 ISSN 2512-5168 ISBN 9783110527377

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 249 Seiten) : , Illustrationen, Diagramme.

ISBN: 978-3-11-053094-0

Series Statement: Epistemic studies volume 37

Note: Text englisch

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Language: English

Subjects: Philosophy

Keywords: Neuropsychologie ; Kognitionswissenschaft ; Philosophie ; Hochschulschrift

DOI: 10.1515/9783110530940

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Author information: Kästner, Lena 1986-

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Format: 1 online resource (266p.)

ISBN: 9783110530940

Series Statement: Epistemic Studies ; 37

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Preface -- , Contents -- , List of Figures -- , 1. Introduction -- , Part I: Stage Setting -- , 2. Braining Up Psychology -- , 3. The Life of Mechanisms -- , 4. The Interventionist View -- , 5. Intermezzo: What’s at Stake? -- , Part II: Puzzles -- , 6. The Unsuccessful Marriage -- , 7. Causation vs. Constitution -- , 8. Beyond Mutual Manipulability -- , 9. Interventionism’s Short-Sightedness -- , 10. Intermezzo: Well Then? -- , Part III: Shopping for Solutions -- , 11. Fixing Interventionism -- , 12. Mere Interactions -- , 13. Excursus: A Perspectival View -- , 14. Mere Interactions at Work: A Catalog of Experiments -- , 15. Conclusions -- , References -- , Key Terms -- , Index , In English.

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110530940

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Series Statement: Epistemic Studies ; 37

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Preface -- , Contents -- , List of Figures -- , 1. Introduction -- , Part I: Stage Setting -- , 2. Braining Up Psychology -- , 3. The Life of Mechanisms -- , 4. The Interventionist View -- , 5. Intermezzo: What’s at Stake? -- , Part II: Puzzles -- , 6. The Unsuccessful Marriage -- , 7. Causation vs. Constitution -- , 8. Beyond Mutual Manipulability -- , 9. Interventionism’s Short-Sightedness -- , 10. Intermezzo: Well Then? -- , Part III: Shopping for Solutions -- , 11. Fixing Interventionism -- , 12. Mere Interactions -- , 13. Excursus: A Perspectival View -- , 14. Mere Interactions at Work: A Catalog of Experiments -- , 15. Conclusions -- , References -- , Key Terms -- , Index , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 249 Seiten) : , Illustrationen, Diagramme.

ISBN: 978-3-11-053094-0

Series Statement: Epistemic studies volume 37

Note: Text englisch

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-11-052737-7

Language: English

Subjects: Philosophy

Keywords: Neuropsychologie ; Kognitionswissenschaft ; Philosophie ; Hochschulschrift

DOI: 10.1515/9783110530940

URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)

Author information: Kästner, Lena 1986-