{"product_id":"the-matter-of-the-mind-isbn-9781444350869","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 vii  \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Mind Matters: The Roots of Reductionism 1\u003cbr\u003e \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 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Functionalism and Psychological Reductionism: Friends, Not Foes 31\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrew Melnyk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Some Metaphysical Anxieties of Reductionism 51\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas W. Polger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Metaphysics of Mechanisms and the Challenge of the New Reductionism 76\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCarl Gillett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Reductionism, Embodiment, and the Generality of Psychology 101\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLawrence A. Shapiro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Philosophical Accounts of Reductionism, Mechanism, and Co-evolution\u003c\/b\u003e 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Reduction without the Structures 123\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert C. Richardson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Reinforcing the Three “R”s: Reduction, Reception, and Replacement 146\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRonald Endicott\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Reducing Psychology while Maintaining its Autonomy via Mechanistic Explanations 172\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWilliam Bechtel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Enriching Philosophical Models of Cross-Scientific Relations: Incorporating Diachronic Theories 199\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert N. McCauley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Mechanisms of Mind\u003c\/b\u003e 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Coupling, Emergence, and Explanation 227\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndy Clark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Is Psychological Explanation Going Extinct? 249\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCory D. Wright\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Who Says You Can’t Do a Molecular Biology of Consciousness? 275\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Bickle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Mind Reading and Mirror Neurons: Exploring Reduction 298\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHuib Looren de Jong and Maurice Schouten\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eName Index 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index 326\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 \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\u003eThe Matter of the Mind\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. 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