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Mental mechanisms : philosophical perspectives on cognitive neuroscience / William Bechtel

Author
Bechtel, William
Published
New York : Routledge/Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, [2008]
Copyright Date
©2008
Physical Description
xiii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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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 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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ISBN
9780805863338 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0805863338 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780805863345 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0805863346 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-296) and indexes.
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