The 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.
Inhoudsopgave
Contributors 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. Mc Cauley
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
Over de auteur
Maurice Schouten is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tilburg. He is co-author of research articles in Theory & Psychology, New Ideas in Psychology, Zygon, Philosophical Psychology, Synthese, and the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
Huib Looren de Jong is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of Naturalism and Psychology (1992) and Theoretical Issues in Psychology (2006, with Sacha Bem), and a number of research articles. He serves as Associate Editor of Theory & Psychology.
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