Psychoneural Reduction

One of the central problems in the philosophy of psychology is an updated version of the old mind-body problem: how levels of theories in the behavioral and brain sciences relate to one another. Many contemporary philosophers of mind believe that cognitive-psychological theories are not reducible to neurological theories. However, this antireductionism has not spawned a revival of dualism. Instead, most nonreductive physicalists prefer the idea of a one-way dependence of the mental on the physical.In Psychoneural Reduction, John Bickle presents a new type of reductionism, one that is stronger than one-way dependency yet sidesteps the arguments that sank classical reductionism. Although he makes some concessions to classical antireductionism, he argues for a relationship between psychology and neurobiology that shares some of the key aims, features, and consequences of classical reductionism. Parts of Bickle's "new wave" reductionism have emerged piecemeal over the past two decades; this is his first comprehensive statement and defense of it to appear.

ISBN 0262512882   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780262512886 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 431 Publisher MIT Press Ltd   Published in Cambridge, Mass. Imprint MIT Press   Series title Bradford Books Format Paperback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 01 Mar 1998   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 128.2   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Professional / Scholarly Pages 252

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