The Matter of the Mind (eBook)

Philosophical Essays on Psychology, Neuroscience and Reduction

Maurice Schouten, Huib Looren de Jong (Herausgeber)

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2009 | 1. Auflage
344 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4051-7276-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The Matter of the Mind addresses and illuminates the
relationship between psychology and neuroscience by focusing on the
topic of reduction.

* Written by leading philosophers in the field

* Discusses recent theorizing in the mind-brain sciences and
reviews and weighs the evidence in favour of reductionism against
the backdrop of recent important advances within psychology and the
neurosciences

* Collects the latest work on central topics where neuroscience
is now making inroads in traditional psychological terrain, such as
adaptive behaviour, reward systems, consciousness, and social
cognition.

Autor

Maurice Schouten is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tilburg. He is co-author of research articles in Theory & Psychology, New Ideas in Psychology, Zygon, Philosophical Psychology, Synthese, and the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Huib Looren de Jong is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of Naturalism and Psychology (1992) and Theoretical Issues in Psychology (2006, with Sacha Bem), and a number of research articles. He serves as Associate Editor of Theory & Psychology.

Inhalt

Contributors vii

Preface and Acknowledgments ix

1 Mind Matters: The Roots of Reductionism 1

Maurice Schouten and Huib Looren de Jong

Part I Metaphysics of Science 29

2 Functionalism and Psychological Reductionism: Friends, Not
Foes 31

Andrew Melnyk

3 Some Metaphysical Anxieties of Reductionism 51

Thomas W. Polger

4 The Metaphysics of Mechanisms and the Challenge of the New
Reductionism 76

Carl Gillett

5 Reductionism, Embodiment, and the Generality of Psychology
101

Lawrence A. Shapiro

Part II Philosophical Accounts of Reductionism, Mechanism,
and Co-evolution 121

6 Reduction without the Structures 123

Robert C. Richardson

7 Reinforcing the Three "R"s: Reduction, Reception,
and Replacement 146

Ronald Endicott

8 Reducing Psychology while Maintaining its Autonomy via
Mechanistic Explanations 172

William Bechtel

9 Enriching Philosophical Models of Cross-Scientific Relations:
Incorporating Diachronic Theories 199

Robert N. McCauley

Part III Mechanisms of Mind 225

10 Coupling, Emergence, and Explanation 227

Andy Clark

11 Is Psychological Explanation Going Extinct? 249

Cory D. Wright

12 Who Says You Can't Do a Molecular Biology of
Consciousness? 275

John Bickle

13 Mind Reading and Mirror Neurons: Exploring Reduction
298

Huib Looren de Jong and Maurice Schouten

Name Index 323

Subject Index 326

Rezensionen

"The Matter of the Mind is a well organized book
which hosts contributions on the main subjects about philosophy of
mind and it is definitely worthwhile reading."
(Metapsychology, 14 May 2013)

"The editors, and the contributors, are to be congratulated. This
is the best collection on the nature of intertheoretic reduction
ever published, especially as those issues bear on the unfolding
relations between the neurosciences on the one hand, and psychology
and the social sciences on the other. Thanks to these papers, all
of us (yours truly included) are going to be rethinking our views
on reduction." Paul M. Churchland, University of California, San
Diego

"Parties on both sides of the reductionism wars will benefit
from this exciting collection. The editors and their contributors
well represent the cutting edges of the philosophy of mind and the
philosophy of science regarding the reducibility (or lack thereof)
of minds to brains." Pete Mandik, William Paterson
University

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.2.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Schlagworte: Geistesphilosophie • Philosophie • Philosophy • Philosophy of mind
• ISBN-10: 1-4051-7276-2 / 1405172762
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-7276-9 / 9781405172769