Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of Neuroscience

by Carl F. Craver

Book Overview

What distinguishes good explanations in neuroscience from bad? Carl F. Craver constructs and defends standards for evaluating neuroscientific explanations that are grounded in a systematic view of what neuroscientific explanations are: descriptions of multilevel mechanisms. In developing this approach, he draws on a wide range of examples in the history of neuroscience (e.g. Hodgkin and Huxleys model of the action potential and LTP as a putative explanation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199568227
• ISBN13: 9780199568222
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"