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From psychology to neuroscience : a new reductive account /

This book explores the mind-body issue from both the perspectives of philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. Starting from the problem of mental causation, it provides an overview of the contemporary metaphysical discussion and argues in favour of the token-identity thesis, as the only positio...

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Main Authors: Soom, Patrice
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Published: De Gruyter,
Publisher Address: Berlin/Boston :
Publication Dates: [2011]
©2011
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Epistemische studien; 21
Subjects:
Mind and body.
Neurosciences > Philosophy.
Philosophy of mind.
Psychology > Philosophy.
Causation.
Neurosciences.
Philosophy.
Psychology.
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Psychologie.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110322620
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Summary: This book explores the mind-body issue from both the perspectives of philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. Starting from the problem of mental causation, it provides an overview of the contemporary metaphysical discussion and argues in favour of the token-identity thesis, as the only position that can account for the causal efficacy of the mental. Showing furthermore that this ontological reductionism is not dissociable from epistemological reductionism, the author applies a new strategy of inter-theoretic reduction, which is compatible with the multiple realizability of mental properties. Using functionally defined sub-types, this account establishes a conservative reduction of psychology to neuroscience, which vindicates both the scientific legitimacy and the theoretical indispensability of psychology. This account is illustrated by several empirical examples borrowed from contemporary neuroscience.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (318 pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print edition.
ISBN: 9783110322620
Index Number: B105
CLC: B848
Contents: Frontmatter --
TABLE OF CONTENTS --
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
1. INTRODUCTION --
2. THE PROBLEM OF MENTAL CAUSATION --
3. ONTOLOGICAL REDUCTIONISM --
4. PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE --
5. EPISTEMOLOGICAL REDUCTIONISM --
6. REDUCTION BY MEANS OF FUNCTIONAL SUB-TYPES --
7. REDUCTION OF PSYCHOLOGY TO NEUROSCIENCE: CASES STUDIES --
8. FINAL REMARKS --
BIBLIOGRAPHY --
INDEX.

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