Theory and method in the neurosciences
By: edited by Peter K. Machamer, Rick Grush, and Peter McLaughlin.
Contributors: Machamer, Peter K.; Grush, Rick.; McLaughlin, Peter.
Series: Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Neurosciences.; Neurosciences -- Methodology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The origin and development of the neurosciences / Olaf Breidbach; value: Theory structure in the neurosciences / Valerie Gray Hardcastle and C. Matthew Stewart; value: On the nature of explanation in the neurosciences / Antti Revonsuo; value: Mechanisms, coherence and the place of psychology: commentary on Revonsuo / Stephan Hartmann; value: Cognitive neuroscience: relating neural mechanisms and cognition / William Bechtel; value: Discovering mechanisms in neurobiology: the case of spatial memory / Carl F. Craver and Lindley Darden; value: The explanatory power and limits of simulation models in the neurosciences / Holk Cruse; value: The semantic challenge to computational neuroscience / Rick Grush; value: Functional imaging evidence: some epistemic hot spots / James Bogen; value: Extrapolation from animal models: social life, sex and super models / Kenneth F. Schaffner; value: Under the lamppost: commentary on Schaffner / Marcel Weber; value: Consciousness: a neurological perspective / Paul-Walter Schoenle.