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Sep 1989
ISBN 0262530856
560 pp.
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Neurophilosophy
Patricia S. Churchland

Neurophilosophy is a rich interdisciplinary study of the prospects for a unified cognitive neurobiology. Contemporary research in the empirical neurosciences, and recent research in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science, are used to illuminate fundamental questions concerning the relation between abstract cognitive theory and substantive neuroscience.

Table of Contents
 Preface
 General Introduction
I Some Elementary Neuroscience
1 The Science of Nervous Systems: A Historical Sketch
2 Modern Theory of Neurons
3 Functional Neuroanatomy
4 Higher Functions: Early Work
5 Higher Functions: Neuropsychology and Neurology
II Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science
6 Introduction and Historical Sketch
7 Reduction and the Mind-Body Problem
8 Are Mental States Irreducible to Neurobiological States?
9 Functional Psychology
III A Neurophilosophical Perspective
10 Theories of Brain Function
11 Closing Remarks
 Notes
 Bibliography
 Index
 
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