Bechtel, William.

Mental mechanisms : philosophical perspectives on cognitive neuroscience / William Bechtel. - New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2008. - xiii, 308 p. ; 23cm.

"Taylor and Francis title."

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.

9780805863345 (pbk.) 0805863346 (pbk.)


Cognitive neuroscience--Philosophy.
Memory--physiology.
Cognition--physiology.
Philosophy.

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