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Map** explanatory language in neuroscience
The philosophical literature on scientific explanation in neuroscience has been dominated by the idea of mechanisms. The mechanist philosophers often...
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Neural representations unobserved—or: a dilemma for the cognitive neuroscience revolution
Neural structural representations are cerebral map- or model-like structures that structurally resemble what they represent. These representations...
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Haptic realism for neuroscience
Recent work in philosophy of science has shown how the challenges posed by extremely complex systems require that scientists employ a range of...
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William Bechtel and Linus Ta-Lun Huang,
Philosophy of Neuroscience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2022), 94 pp., $20.00 (Paperback)This new monograph Philosophy of Neuroscience is a novel contribution to the relevant literatures. In this book review, I first summarise its...
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Examining Phronesis Models with Evidence from the Neuroscience of Morality Focusing on Brain Networks
In this paper, I examined whether evidence from the neuroscience of morality supports the standard models of phronesis , i.e., Jubilee and Aretai...
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Exploring, expounding & ersatzing: a three-level account of deep learning models in cognitive neuroscience
Deep learning (DL) is a statistical technique for pattern classification through which AI researchers train artificial neural networks containing...
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Ethical Issues in Neuroscience Research
We have only a limited understanding of how the brain enables thought and behavior and how it becomes dysfunctional in neuropsychiatric disorders....
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First-person constraints on dynamic-mechanistic explanations in neuroscience: The case of migraine and epilepsy models
According to recent discussion, cross-explanatory integration in cognitive science might proceed by constraints on mechanistic and...
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Literary Neuroexistentialism: Coming to Terms with Materialism and Finding Meaning in the Age of Neuroscience through Literature
With the rise of the scientific authority of neuroscience and recent neurotechnological advances, the understanding of the human being and its future...
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Considering the Purposes of Moral Education with Evidence in Neuroscience: Emphasis on Habituation of Virtues and Cultivation of Phronesis
In this paper, findings from research in neuroscience of morality will be reviewed to consider the purposes of moral education. Particularly, I will...
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Understanding the development and use of tools in neuroscience: the case of the tungsten micro-electrode
The philosophical interest in experimental practice in neuroscience has brought renewed attention to the study of the development and use of...
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Methodological Problem in Philosophy and Neuroscience
This chapter introduces the methodological problem between neuroscience and philosophy; relevant issues in metaphilosophy and philosophy of...
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Neuroscience and Judgment
We interrogate and criticise the reliance, by Joshua Greene and many others, on the results of functional brain imaging. Greene’s ‘dual-mode’ model...
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Identifying the Presence of Ethics Concepts in Chronic Pain Research: A Sco** Review of Neuroscience Journals
BackgroundChronic pain is a pervasive and invisible condition which affects people in a myriad of ways including but not limited to their quality of...
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Applying Neuroscience Research: The Bioethical Problems of Predicting and Explaining Behavior
Advances in neuroscience research have changed the ways in which the relationship between brain and behavior are studied and conceptualized. These...
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Abductive reasoning in cognitive neuroscience: weak and strong reverse inference
Reverse inference is a crucial inferential strategy used in cognitive neuroscience to derive conclusions about the engagement of cognitive processes...
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Descartes vs. the Scholastics: Lessons from Contemporary Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience
The demise of the scholastic worldview and the rise of the mechanistic one may give the impression of a parallel demise of the scholastic explanatory...
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Neuroscience with New Materialism
This first chapter of this second section starts with an overview of some of the issues that I developed in the first volume. It then proceeds with a...
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Descriptive multiscale modeling in data-driven neuroscience
Multiscale modeling techniques have attracted increasing attention by philosophers of science, but the resulting discussions have almost exclusively...
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Cognitive Neuroscience of Love
This chapter presents a conceptual review of cognitive neuroscience (CNS) studies on love. I review the methodological choices made in these studies...