{"product_id":"the-matter-of-the-mind-isbn-9781405144438","title":"The Matter of the Mind","description":"The \u003ci\u003eMatter of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e addresses and illuminates the relationship between psychology and neuroscience by focusing on the topic of reduction.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by leading philosophers in the field\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses recent theorizing in the mind-brain sciences and reviews and weighs the evidence in favour of reductionism against the backdrop of recent important advances within psychology and the neurosciences\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCollects the latest work on central topics where neuroscience is now making inroads in traditional psychological terrain, such as adaptive behaviour, reward systems, consciousness, and social cognition.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Contributors.  \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Mind Matters: The Roots of Reductionism (\u003ci\u003eMaurice Schouten and Huib Looren de Jong\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Metaphysics of Science.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Functionalism and Psychological Reductionism: Friends, Not Foes (\u003ci\u003eAndrew Melnyk\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Some Metaphysical Anxieties of Reductionism (\u003ci\u003eThomas W. Polger\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Metaphysics of Mechanisms and the Challenge of the New Reductionism (\u003ci\u003eCarl Gillett\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Reductionism, Embodiment, and the Generality of Psychology (\u003ci\u003eLawrence A. Shapiro\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Philosophical Accounts of Reduction, Mechanism, Co-evolution.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Reduction without the Structures (\u003ci\u003eRobert C. Richardson\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Reinforcing the Three \"R\"s: Reduction, Reception, and Replacement (\u003ci\u003eRonald Endicott\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Reducing Psychology while Maintaining its Autonomy via Mechanistic Explanations (\u003ci\u003eWilliam Bechtel\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Enriching Philosophical Models of Cross-Scientific Relations: Incorporating Diachronic Theories (\u003ci\u003eRobert N. McCauley\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Mechanisms of Mind.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Coupling, Emergence, and Explanation (\u003ci\u003eAndy Clark\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Is Psychological Explanation Going Extinct? (\u003ci\u003eCory D. Wright\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Who Says You Can't Do a Molecular Biology of Consciousness? (John \u003ci\u003eBickle\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Mind Reading and Mirror Neurons: Exploring Reduction (\u003ci\u003eHuib Looren de Jong and Maurice Schouten\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eName Index.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“The Matter of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is a well organized book which hosts contributions on the main subjects about philosophy of mind and it is definitely worthwhile reading.”  (\u003ci\u003eMetapsychology\u003c\/i\u003e, 14 May 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e \"The editors, and the contributors, are to be congratulated. This is the best collection on the nature of intertheoretic reduction ever published, especially as those issues bear on the unfolding relations between the neurosciences on the one hand, and psychology and the social sciences on the other. Thanks to these papers, all of us (yours truly included) are going to be rethinking our views on reduction.\" \u003ci\u003ePaul M. Churchland, University of California, San Diego\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Parties on both sides of the reductionism wars will benefit from this exciting collection. The editors and their contributors well represent the cutting edges of the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science regarding the reducibility (or lack thereof) of minds to brains.\" \u003ci\u003ePete Mandik, William Paterson University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“An outstanding vehicle by which to learn about modern reductionism, the relation of neuroscience to psychology, and how they can cooperate rather than compete.” \u003ci\u003ePsycCritiques\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eMaurice Schouten\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tilburg. He is co-author of research articles in \u003ci\u003eTheory \u0026amp; Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Ideas in Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZygon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSynthese\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHuib Looren de Jong\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eNaturalism and Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e (1992) and \u003ci\u003eTheoretical Issues in Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e (2006, with Sacha Bem), and a number of research articles. He serves as Associate Editor of \u003ci\u003eTheory \u0026amp; Psychology.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Matter of the Mind\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e addresses and illuminates fundamental questions about the relationship between psychology and its associated disciplines by focusing on the topic of reduction. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter decades of an “antireductionist consensus” in the sciences, reductionism has become credible, even fashionable, again due first to new empirical evidence supporting reductionist claims, and secondly to a “new wave” model of reduction which overcomes many of the conceptual difficulties which previously discredited it. These original articles, written by expert philosophers on the subject of reduction, discuss recent theorizing in the mind-brain sciences, and review and weigh the evidence in favor of the new wave of reduction against the backdrop of recent important advances within psychology and the neurosciences. This volume collects the latest work on central topics where neuroscience is now making inroads in traditional psychological terrain, such as adaptive behavior, reward systems, consciousness, and social cognition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990285631717,"sku":"NP9781405144438","price":124.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405144438.jpg?v=1761787204","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-matter-of-the-mind-isbn-9781405144438","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}