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Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience
Causal Explanations, Mechanisms and Experimental Manipulations
Taschenbuch von Lena Kästner
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Lena Kästner, University of Saarbrücken.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: 20. & 21. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 268
Inhalt: 249 S.
ISBN-13: 9783110653915
ISBN-10: 3110653915
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kästner, Lena
Hersteller: De Gruyter
Maße: 230 x 155 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Lena Kästner
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.07.2019
Gewicht: 0,403 kg
preigu-id: 116773010
Über den Autor
Lena Kästner, University of Saarbrücken.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: 20. & 21. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 268
Inhalt: 249 S.
ISBN-13: 9783110653915
ISBN-10: 3110653915
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kästner, Lena
Hersteller: De Gruyter
Maße: 230 x 155 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Lena Kästner
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.07.2019
Gewicht: 0,403 kg
preigu-id: 116773010
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