Author | Bickle, John. author |
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Title | Philosophy and Neuroscience [electronic resource] : A Ruthlessly Reductive Account / by John Bickle |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2003 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0237-0 |
Descript | XVI, 235 p. online resource |
One: From New Wave Reduction to New Wave Metascience -- 1. Why Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience? -- 2. Background: The Intertheortic Reduction Reformulation of the Mind-Body Problem -- 3. Revolts Against Nagelโs Account -- Extending Hookerโs Insight: New Wave Reduction -- 5. WWSD? (What Would Socrates Do?) -- Notes -- Two: Reduction-in-Practice in Current Mainstream Neuroscience -- 1. A Proposed โPsychoneural Linkโ -- 2. Two Psychological Features of Memory Consolidation -- 3. LTP is Discovered -- 4. Molecular Mechanisms of LTP: One Current Model -- 5. But is This Really Memory (Consolidation)? -- 6. The Nature of โPsychoneural Reductionโ at Work in Current Mainstream (Cellular and Molecular) Neuroscience -- Notes -- Three: Mental Causation, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Multiple Realization -- 1. The Problem of Mental Causation -- 2. Letting Neuroscientific Practice be Our Guide -- 3. What About Cognitive Neuroscience? -- 4. Putnamโs Challenge and the Multiple Realization Orthodoxy -- 5Molecular Mechanisms of Nondeclarative Memory Consolidation in Invertebrates -- 6. Evolutionary Conservatism at the Molecular Level: The Expected Scope of Shared Molecular Mechanisms -- 7. Consequences For Current Philosophy of Mind -- Notes -- Four: Consciousness -- 1. Prefrontal Neurons Possess Working Memory Fields -- 2. Construction and Modulation of Memory Fields: From Circuit Connectivities to Receptor Proteins -- 3. Explicit Attention and Its Unremarkable Effects on Individual Neuron Activity -- 4. Single-Cell Neurophysiology and the โHard Problemโ -- 5. Inducing Phenomenology From Visual Motion to Somatosensory Flutter โฆ And Beyond? -- 6. The Strange Case of Phenomenal Externalism -- 7. The โHard Problemโ and the Society for Neuroscience Crowd -- Notes