Mental mechanisms
Subtitle: philosophical perspectives on cognitive neuroscience
By: William Bechtel
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780805863338; 9780805863345
Subjects: Cognitive neuroscience -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Naturalism and mechanism: outlines of a new philosophy of science; title: From mental phenomena to operations: delineating and decomposing memory; title: From working parts to operations: decomposing and resynthesizing visual processing; title: Reduction and independence of higher-level sciences: a rapprochement; title: Representations and mental mechanisms; title: From responsive to active mechanisms; title: Confronting mechanism's critics: accounting for freedom and dignity via mental mechanisms