Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience
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What distinguishes good explanations in neuroscience from bad? Carl F. Craver constructs and defends standards for evaluating neuroscientific explanations that are grounded in a systematic view of what neuroscientific explanations are: descriptions of multilevel mechanisms. In developing this approach, he draws on a wide range of examples in the history of neuroscience (e.g. Hodgkin and Huxleys model of the action potential and LTP as a putative explanation...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0199568227
ISBN13:9780199568222
Release Date:August 2009
Publisher:OUP UK
Length:328 Pages
Weight:0.93 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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