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Book SynopsisThe
Matter of the Mind addresses and illuminates the relationship between psychology and neuroscience by focusing on the topic of reduction.
- Written by leading philosophers in the field
- Discusses recent theorizing in the mind-brain sciences and reviews and weighs the evidence in favour of reductionism against the backdrop of recent important advances within psychology and the neurosciences
- Collects the latest work on central topics where neuroscience is now making inroads in traditional psychological terrain, such as adaptive behaviour, reward systems, consciousness, and social cognition.
Trade Review“The Matter of the Mind is a well organized book which hosts contributions on the main subjects about philosophy of mind and it is definitely worthwhile reading.” (Metapsychology, 14 May 2013)
Table of ContentsContributors vii
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
1 Mind Matters: The Roots of Reductionism 1
Maurice Schouten and Huib Looren de Jong
Part I Metaphysics of Science 29
2 Functionalism and Psychological Reductionism: Friends, Not Foes 31
Andrew Melnyk
3 Some Metaphysical Anxieties of Reductionism 51
Thomas W. Polger
4 The Metaphysics of Mechanisms and the Challenge of the New Reductionism 76
Carl Gillett
5 Reductionism, Embodiment, and the Generality of Psychology 101
Lawrence A. Shapiro
Part II Philosophical Accounts of Reductionism, Mechanism, and Co-evolution 121
6 Reduction without the Structures 123
Robert C. Richardson
7 Reinforcing the Three “R”s: Reduction, Reception, and Replacement 146
Ronald Endicott
8 Reducing Psychology while Maintaining its Autonomy via Mechanistic Explanations 172
William Bechtel
9 Enriching Philosophical Models of Cross-Scientific Relations: Incorporating Diachronic Theories 199
Robert N. McCauley
Part III Mechanisms of Mind 225
10 Coupling, Emergence, and Explanation 227
Andy Clark
11 Is Psychological Explanation Going Extinct? 249
Cory D. Wright
12 Who Says You Can’t Do a Molecular Biology of Consciousness? 275
John Bickle
13 Mind Reading and Mirror Neurons: Exploring Reduction 298
Huib Looren de Jong and Maurice Schouten
Name Index 323
Subject Index 326
