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Mental mechanisms : philosophical perspectives on cognitive neuroscience / William Bechtel.

By: Bechtel, William.
Publisher: New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2008Description: xiii, 308 p. ; 23cm.ISBN: 9780805863345 (pbk.); 0805863346 (pbk.).Subject(s): Cognitive neuroscience -- Philosophy | Memory -- physiology | Cognition -- physiology | PhilosophyDDC classification: 612.8233
Contents:
Naturalism and mechanism: outlines of a new philosophy of science -- From mental phenomena to operations: delineating and decomposing memory -- From working parts to operations: decomposing and resynthesizing visual processing -- Reduction and independence of higher-level sciences: a rapprochement -- Representations and mental mechanisms -- From responsive to active mechanisms -- Confronting mechanism's critics: accounting for freedom and dignity via mental mechanisms.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Naturalism and mechanism: outlines of a new philosophy of science -- From mental phenomena to operations: delineating and decomposing memory -- From working parts to operations: decomposing and resynthesizing visual processing -- Reduction and independence of higher-level sciences: a rapprochement -- Representations and mental mechanisms -- From responsive to active mechanisms -- Confronting mechanism's critics: accounting for freedom and dignity via mental mechanisms.