Eronen, Markus (2012) No Levels, No Problems: Downward Causation in Neuroscience. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Preview

PDF eronen_levels_paper_philsci.pdf Download (163kB)

Abstract

I show that the recent account of levels in neuroscience proposed by Bechtel and Craver is unsatisfactory, since it fails to provide a plausible criterion for being at the same level and is incompatible with Bechtel and Craver’s account of downward causation. Furthermore, I argue that no distinct notion of levels is needed for analyzing explanations and causal issues in neuroscience: it is better to rely on more well-defined notions such as composition and scale. One outcome of this is that there is no distinct problem of downward causation.

---

Export/Citation:

EndNote | BibTeX | Dublin Core | ASCII/Text Citation (Chicago) | HTML Citation | OpenURL

Social Networking:

Share |

---

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Eronen, Markus Markus.Eronen@rub.de
Keywords:	level, mechanism, composition, scale, downward causation, neuroscience
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Neuroscience General Issues > Reductionism/Holism
Depositing User:	Dr. Markus Eronen
Date Deposited:	25 Jul 2012 15:37
Last Modified:	25 Jul 2012 15:37
Item ID:	9250
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Neuroscience General Issues > Reductionism/Holism
Date:	July 2012
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9250

Monthly Views for the past 3 years

Monthly Downloads for the past 3 years

Plum Analytics

Actions (login required)

View Item