Neural Machines: A Defense of Non-Representationalism in Cognitive Neuroscience

AvMatej Kohár

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Del 22 i serien Studies in Brain and Mind

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In this book, Matej Kohar demonstrates how the new mechanistic account of explanation can be used to support a non-representationalist view of explanations in cognitive neuroscience, and therefore can bring new conceptual tools to the non-representationalist arsenal.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-03-10
Mått:155 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt:483 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Brain and Mind
Antal sidor:198
Upplaga:2023
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031267451

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Matej Kohar is Research Assistant at the Technical University in Berlin, Germany. He earned a BA in Philosophy from the University of Exeter, an MSc in Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition from The University of Edinburgh and has defended a doctoral thesis in Philosophy at the Ruhr-University Bochum in October 2020.

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Introduction.- Part 1. Mechanisms.- Chapter 1. The New Mechanistic Theory of Explanation: a primer.- Chapter 2. Mechanistic explanatory texts.- Part 2. Representations.- Chapter 3. Representations and mechanisms do not mix.- Chapter 4. Indicator contents.- Chapter 5. Structural contents.- Chapter 6. Teleosemantics.- Part 3. Objections.- Chapter 7. The dual-explananda defence.- Chapter 8. The Pragmatic Necessity defence.- Part 4. Applications.- Chapter 9. Applications and future directions.- Conclusion.