Neural Machines: A Defense of Non-Representationalism in Cognitive Neuroscience

Introduction.- Part 1. Mechanisms.- Chapter 1. The New Mechanistic Theory of Explanation: a primer.- Chapter 2. Mechanistic explanatory texts.- Part 2. Representations.- Chapter 3. Representations and mechanisms do not mix.- Chapter 4. Indicator contents.- Chapter 5. Structural contents.- Chapter 6. Teleosemantics.- Part 3. Objections.- Chapter 7. The dual-explananda defence.- Chapter 8. The Pragmatic Necessity defence.- Part 4. Applications.- Chapter 9. Applications and future directions.- Conclusion.

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• Filosofia da mente
• Filosofia da Ciência
• Neurociências

Mechanistic Explanation;Cognitive Neuroscience;Anti-representationalism in Cognitive Neuroscience;Explanatory Relevance of Representational Contents;Philosophy of Cognitive Neuroscience;Constitutive Mechanistic Explanation;New Mechanistic Theory of Explanation;Mechanistic explanatory texts;Indicator contents;Teleosemantics;dual-explananda defence;Pragmatic Necessity defence