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The Matter of the Mind


The Matter of the Mind

Philosophical Essays on Psychology, Neuroscience and Reduction
1. Aufl.

von: Maurice Schouten, Huib Looren de Jong

26,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 04.02.2009
ISBN/EAN: 9781405172769
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 344

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The <i>Matter of the Mind</i> addresses and illuminates the relationship between psychology and neuroscience by focusing on the topic of reduction. <ul> <li>Written by leading philosophers in the field</li> <li>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</li> <li>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.</li> </ul>
Contributors vii <p>Preface and Acknowledgments ix</p> <p>1 Mind Matters: The Roots of Reductionism 1<br /> <i>Maurice Schouten and Huib Looren de Jong</i></p> <p><b>Part I Metaphysics of Science</b> 29</p> <p>2 Functionalism and Psychological Reductionism: Friends, Not Foes 31<br /> <i>Andrew Melnyk</i></p> <p>3 Some Metaphysical Anxieties of Reductionism 51<br /> <i>Thomas W. Polger</i></p> <p>4 The Metaphysics of Mechanisms and the Challenge of the New Reductionism 76<br /> <i>Carl Gillett</i></p> <p>5 Reductionism, Embodiment, and the Generality of Psychology 101<br /> <i>Lawrence A. Shapiro</i></p> <p><b>Part II Philosophical Accounts of Reductionism, Mechanism, and Co-evolution</b> 121</p> <p>6 Reduction without the Structures 123<br /> <i>Robert C. Richardson</i></p> <p>7 Reinforcing the Three “R”s: Reduction, Reception, and Replacement 146<br /> <i>Ronald Endicott</i></p> <p>8 Reducing Psychology while Maintaining its Autonomy via Mechanistic Explanations 172<br /> <i>William Bechtel</i></p> <p>9 Enriching Philosophical Models of Cross-Scientific Relations: Incorporating Diachronic Theories 199<br /> <i>Robert N. McCauley</i></p> <p><b>Part III Mechanisms of Mind</b> 225</p> <p>10 Coupling, Emergence, and Explanation 227<br /> <i>Andy Clark</i></p> <p>11 Is Psychological Explanation Going Extinct? 249<br /> <i>Cory D. Wright</i></p> <p>12 Who Says You Can’t Do a Molecular Biology of Consciousness? 275<br /> <i>John Bickle</i></p> <p>13 Mind Reading and Mirror Neurons: Exploring Reduction 298<br /> <i>Huib Looren de Jong and Maurice Schouten</i></p> <p>Name Index 323</p> <p>Subject Index 326</p>
<p><i>“The Matter of the Mind</i> is a well organized book which hosts contributions on the main subjects about philosophy of mind and it is definitely worthwhile reading.”  (<i>Metapsychology</i>, 14 May 2013)</p>
<b>Maurice Schouten</b> is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tilburg. He is co-author of research articles in <i>Theory & Psychology</i>, <i>New Ideas in Psychology</i>, <i>Zygon</i>, <i>Philosophical Psychology</i>, <i>Synthese</i>, and the <i>British Journal for the Philosophy of Science</i>. <br /> <p> <b>Huib Looren de Jong</b> is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of <i>Naturalism and Psychology</i> (1992) and <i>Theoretical Issues in Psychology</i> (2006, with Sacha Bem), and a number of research articles. He serves as Associate Editor of <i>Theory & Psychology.<br /></i></p>
<i>The Matter of the Mind</i> addresses and illuminates fundamental questions about the relationship between psychology and its associated disciplines by focusing on the topic of reduction. <br /> <p>After decades of an “antireductionist consensus” in the sciences, reductionism has become credible, even fashionable, again due first to new empirical evidence supporting reductionist claims, and secondly to a “new wave” model of reduction which overcomes many of the conceptual difficulties which previously discredited it. These original articles, written by expert philosophers on the subject of reduction, discuss recent theorizing in the mind-brain sciences, and review and weigh the evidence in favor of the new wave of reduction against the backdrop of recent important advances within psychology and the neurosciences. This volume collects the latest work on central topics where neuroscience is now making inroads in traditional psychological terrain, such as adaptive behavior, reward systems, consciousness, and social cognition.</p>
"The editors, and the contributors, are to be congratulated. This is the best collection on the nature of intertheoretic reduction ever published, especially as those issues bear on the unfolding relations between the neurosciences on the one hand, and psychology and the social sciences on the other. Thanks to these papers, all of us (yours truly included) are going to be rethinking our views on reduction." <i>Paul M. Churchland, University of California, San Diego</i><br /> <p><br /> </p> <p>"Parties on both sides of the reductionism wars will benefit from this exciting collection. The editors and their contributors well represent the cutting edges of the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science regarding the reducibility (or lack thereof) of minds to brains." <i>Pete Mandik, William Paterson University</i></p>

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