Explanation and Integration in Mind and Brain Science

Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews All in all, each of the substantive chapters, taken individually, are excellent -- carefully argued, nuanced, clearly written, and deep. In addition, Kaplan's introductory chapter, which I have not summarized here, is a terrific quick history of the major issues in the reduction debate in cognitive science.

David M. Kaplan is a researcher in the Department of Cognitive Science and an Associate Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD) at Macquarie University. After completing his PhD at Duke University (2007), he was a James S. McDonnell postdoctoral fellow in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (PNP) Program at Washington University in St. Louis (2007-2009). He completed additional postdoctoral training in neurophysiology in the lab of Dr Lawrence Snyder at Washington University in St. Louis - School of Medicine (2009-2013). His research is organized into two interrelated streams. One research stream falls within the field of sensorimotor neuroscience and addresses the neural mechanisms and computations underlying motor planning and learning. The other stream addresses foundational methodological and explanatory issues in neuroscience and cognitive science.

1: David Michael Kaplan: Integrating Mind and Brain Science: A Field Guide 2: Martin Roth and Robert Cummins: Neuroscience, Psychology, Reduction, and Functional Analysis 3: Daniel A. Weiskopf: The Explanatory Autonomy of Cognitive Models 4: James Woodward: Explanation in Neurobiology: An Interventionist Perspective 5: Michael Strevens: The Whole Story 6: Dominic Murphy: Brains and Beliefs: On the Scientific Integration of Folk Psychology 7: Frances Egan: Function-Theoretic Explanation and the Search for Neural Mechanisms 8: David Michael Kaplan: Neural Computation, Multiple Realizability, and the Prospects for Mechanistic Explanation 9: Oron Shagrir and William Bechtel: Marr's Computational Level and Delineating Phenomena 10: Ken Aizawa: Multiple Realization, Autonomy, and Integration 11: Corey J. Maley and Gualtiero Piccinini: A Unified Mechanistic Account of Teleological Functions for Psychology and Neuroscience