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Video Lectures on Philosophy and Neuroscience


Video Lecture #6

What is Explanation in Neuroscience?
| Dr. Mazviita Chirimuuta

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What is Explanation in Neuroscience?
| Dr. Mazviita Chirimuuta


Dr. Mazviita Chirimuuta's video lecture about #Neuroscience explanations from A Beginner's Guide To Neural Mechanisms. Made via collaboration between @neuralmechanisms942 and @PhilosophyOfBrains with generous funding from the @templetonworldcharityfound4808 in partnership with @dukeuniversity and those listed in the video credits.


SUGGESTED READING

Bechtel, W. (2008). Mental Mechanisms: Philosophical Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience. London: Routledge. https://amzn.to/3O8VjlL

Chirimuuta, M. (2014). “Minimal Models and Canonical Neural Computations: The Distinctness of Computational Explanation in Neuroscience”, Synthese 191: 127-53. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-013-03...

Craver, C. (2007). Explaining the Brain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://amzn.to/3O6XMwR Egan, F. (2017). “Function-theoretic explanation and the search for neural mechanisms. In D.M. Kaplan (ed.) Explanation and integration in mind and brain science. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://amzn.to/3DsNvWW

Kaplan, D.M. (2011), “Explanation and Description in Computational Neuroscience.” Synthese 183: 339-73. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-011-99...

Piccinini, G. and Craver, C. (2011). “Integrating psychology and neuroscience: functional analyses as mechanism sketches.” Synthese 183:283-311. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-011-98...

Potochnik, A. (2017). Idealization and the Aims of Science. Chicago IL: Chicago University Press. https://amzn.to/3q4sYF5

Weiskopf, D. (2011). “Models and Mechanisms in Psychological Explanation.” Synthese 183: 313-38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-011-99...
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