Philosophy and Neuroscience

One: From New Wave Reduction to New Wave Metascience. - 1. Why Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience?. - 2. Background: The Intertheortic Reduction Reformulation of the Mind-Body Problem. - 3. Revolts Against Nagel's Account. - Extending Hooker's Insight: New Wave Reduction. - 5. WWSD? (What Would Socrates Do?). - Notes. - Two: Reduction-in-Practice in Current Mainstream Neuroscience. - 1. A Proposed Psychoneural Link. - 2. Two Psychological Features of Memory Consolidation. - 3. LTP is Discovered. - 4. Molecular Mechanisms of LTP: One Current Model. - 5. But is This Really Memory (Consolidation)?. - 6. The Nature of Psychoneural Reduction at Work in Current Mainstream (Cellular and Molecular) Neuroscience. - Notes. - Three: Mental Causation Cognitive Neuroscience and Multiple Realization. - 1. The Problem of Mental Causation. - 2. Letting Neuroscientific Practice be Our Guide. - 3. What About Cognitive Neuroscience?. - 4. Putnam's Challenge and the Multiple Realization Orthodoxy. - 5Molecular Mechanisms of Nondeclarative Memory Consolidation in Invertebrates. - 6. Evolutionary Conservatism at the Molecular Level: The Expected Scope of Shared Molecular Mechanisms. - 7. Consequences For Current Philosophy of Mind. - Notes. - Four: Consciousness. - 1. Prefrontal Neurons Possess Working Memory Fields. - 2. Construction and Modulation of Memory Fields: From Circuit Connectivities to Receptor Proteins. - 3. Explicit Attention and Its Unremarkable Effects on Individual Neuron Activity. - 4. Single-Cell Neurophysiology and the Hard Problem. - 5. Inducing Phenomenology From Visual Motion to Somatosensory Flutter And Beyond?. - 6. The Strange Case of Phenomenal Externalism. - 7. The Hard Problem and the Society for Neuroscience Crowd. - Notes. Language: English