Overview
- Advances contemporary debates concerning foundational, conceptual, and methodological issues in cognitive neuroscience
- Includes contributions from both established and early career researchers in philosophers of neuroscience
- Addresses five core areas in philosophy of neuroscience
Part of the book series: Studies in Brain and Mind (SIBM, volume 17)
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This volume brings together new papers advancing contemporary debates in foundational, conceptual, and methodological issues in cognitive neuroscience. The different perspectives presented in each chapter have previously been discussed between the authors, as the volume builds on the experience of Neural Mechanisms (NM) Online – webinar series on the philosophy of neuroscience organized by the editors of this volume.
The contributed chapters pertain to five core areas in current philosophy of neuroscience. It surveys the novel forms of explanation (and prediction) developed in cognitive neuroscience, and looks at new concepts, methods and techniques used in the field. The book also highlights the metaphysical challenges raised by recent neuroscience and demonstrates the relation between neuroscience and mechanistic philosophy. Finally, the book dives into the issue of neural computations and representations. Assembling contributions from leading philosophers ofneuroscience, this work draws upon the expertise of both established scholars and promising early career researchers.
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Keywords
- Bayesian models in neuroscience
- Bodily representations
- Computational Psychiatry
- Concepts and methods in brain sciences
- Consciousness and mechanistic explanation
- Explanation in neuroscience
- Hierarchy in Systems Neuroscience
- Localization and Decomposition
- Mechanistic explanation and the brain
- Motor actions
- Network Analysis
- Neural Architecture
- Neural Reuse
- Neurocognitive ontologies
- Philosophy of neuroscience
- Psychoneural Isomorphism
- Reverse inference
- The mind-body problem
- Topological Models in Neuroscience
- Neural Mechanisms Online
Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Concepts and Tools
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Mechanistic Explanations
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Marco Viola is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turin, Italy. His core interest is the philosophy of neuroscience, especially cognitive ontology and the neuroscience of emotion. Other interests include face perception, philosophy of mind and the social epistemology of science. He is the co-organizer of Neural Mechanisms Online, a series of webinars and web-conferences in the philosophy of neuroscience
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neural Mechanisms
Book Subtitle: New Challenges in the Philosophy of Neuroscience
Editors: Fabrizio Calzavarini, Marco Viola
Series Title: Studies in Brain and Mind
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54092-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54091-3Published: 03 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54094-4Published: 04 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54092-0Published: 02 December 2020
Series ISSN: 1573-4536
Series E-ISSN: 2468-399X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 506
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Neurosciences, Neuropsychology