Chemero, Tony and Silberstein, Michael (2007) After the Philosophy of Mind: Replacing Scholasticism with Science. [Preprint]

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Abstract

We provide a taxonomy of the two most important debates in the philosophy of the cognitive and neural sciences. The first debate is over methodological individualism: is the object of the cognitive and neural sciences the brain, the whole animal, or the animal--environment system? The second is over explanatory style: should explanation in cognitive and neural science be reductionist-mechanistic, inter-level mechanistic, or dynamical? After setting out the debates, we discuss the ways in which they are interconnected. Finally, we make some recommendations that we hope will help philosophers interested in the cognitive and neural sciences to avoid dead ends.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Chemero, Tony Silberstein, Michael
Additional Information:	Forthcoming in Philosophy of Science.
Keywords:	extended cognition, explanatory pluralism, neuroscience, complex systems, dynamical explanation, causal mechanisms, representationalism, reductionism, holism.
Subjects:	General Issues > Reductionism/Holism General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science
Depositing User:	Michael Silberstein
Date Deposited:	03 Mar 2007
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:14
Item ID:	3200
Subjects:	General Issues > Reductionism/Holism General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science
Date:	July 2007
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/3200

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