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.