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Neural Machines: A Defense of Non-Representationalism in Cognitive Neuroscience
Matej Kohar
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Übersicht
Verlag | : | Springer International Publishing |
Buchreihe | : | Studies in Brain and Mind (Bd. 22) |
Sprache | : | Englisch |
Erschienen | : | 20. 04. 2023 |
Seiten | : | 170 |
Einband | : | Gebunden |
Höhe | : | 235 mm |
Breite | : | 155 mm |
ISBN | : | 9783031267451 |
Sprache | : | Englisch |
Illustrationen | : | X, 170 p. |
Autorinformation
Matej Kohar is Research Assistant at the Technical University in Berlin, Germany. He earned a BA in Philosophy from the University of Exeter, an MSc in Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition from The University of Edinburgh and has defended a doctoral thesis in Philosophy at the Ruhr-University Bochum in October 2020.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction.- Part 1. Mechanisms.- Chapter 1. The New Mechanistic Theory of Explanation: a primer.- Chapter 2. Mechanistic explanatory texts.- Part 2. Representations.- Chapter 3. Representations and mechanisms do not mix.- Chapter 4. Indicator contents.- Chapter 5. Structural contents.- Chapter 6. Teleosemantics.- Part 3. Objections.- Chapter 7. The dual-explananda defence.- Chapter 8. The Pragmatic Necessity defence.- Part 4. Applications.- Chapter 9. Applications and future directions.- Conclusion.