Bechtel, William

Mental mechanisms : philosophical perspectives on cognitive neuroscience / William Bechtel - New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2008 - 308 p. ; 23 cm.

'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

9780805863338 (hardcover : alk. paper) RM318.10


Memory--physiology
Cognition--physiology
Philosophy

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