Explaining the Brain

Explaining the Brain
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9780199299317
ISBN-13 : 0199299315
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Book Synopsis Explaining the Brain by : Carl F. Craver

Download or read book Explaining the Brain written by Carl F. Craver and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl Craver investigates what we are doing when we use neuroscience to explain what>'s going on in the brain. When does an explanation succeed and when does it fail? Craver offers explicit standards for successful explanation of the workings of the brain, on the basis of a systematic view about what neuroscientific explanations are: they are descriptions of mechanisms.


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