Explaining the Brain

Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press (2007)
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Carl F. Craver investigates what we are doing when we use neuroscience to explain what's going on in the brain. When does an explanation succeed and when does it fail? Craver offers explicit standards for successful explanation of the workings of the brain, on the basis of a systematic view about what neuroscientific explanations are.

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QP356.C73 2007

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9780199568222   0199568227   9780199299317   9780191715075   0199299315

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original Craver, Carl F. (2007) "Explaining the brain: mechanisms and the mosaic unity of neuroscience". Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press
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