Morris, Kevin (2010) Carl F. Craver. Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience. Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science, 3 (1). 239 - 242. ISSN 1913-0465
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Abstract
Human beings enjoy a wide range of mental capacities: we learn, remember, and think. And we have these capacities largely in virtue of the brain. But how does the brain work? Carl Craver’s Explaining the Brain provides a careful, detailed examination of the explanatory framework employed in contemporary neuroscience and how this framework revolves around the notion of a mechanism. Moreover, he argues that an adequate appreciation of this framework requires reconsidering a number of issues in the philosophy of science.
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