- The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience
- Contributors
- The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience
- Introduction
- Molecules, Systems, and Behavior: Another View of Memory Consolidation
- Biological Clocks: Explaining with Models of Mechanisms
- Methodology and Reduction in the Behavioral Neurosciences: Object Exploration as a Case Study
- The Science of Research and the Search for Molecular Mechanisms of Cognitive Functions
- The Lower Bounds of Cognition: What Do Spinal Cords Reveal?
- Lessons for Cognitive Science from Neurogenomics
- Learning, Neuroscience, and the Return of Behaviorism
- fMRI: A Modern Cerebrascope? The Case of Pain
- The Embedded Neuron, the Enactive Field?
- The Role of Neurobiology in Differentiating the Senses
- Enactivism's Vision: Neurocognitive Basis or Neurocognitively Baseless?
- Space, Time, and Objects
- Neurocomputational Models: Theory, Application, Philosophical Consequences
- Neuroanatomy and Cosmology
- The Emerging Theory of Motivation
- Inference to the Best Decision
- Emergentism at the Crossroads of Philosophy, Neurotechnology, and the Enhancement Debate
- What's “Neu” in Neuroethics?
- Confabulations about People and Their Limbs, Present or Absent
- Delusional Experience
- The Case for Animal Emotions: Modeling Neuropsychiatric Disorders
- Levels, Individual Variation, and Massive Multiple Realization in Neurobiology
- Neuro‐Eudaimonics or Buddhists Lead Neuroscientists to the Seat of Happiness
- The Neurophilosophy of Subjectivity
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This article examines the behavioural aspects and the molecular and cellular processes in the brain associated with memory consolidation. It suggests that ruthless reduction and mechanistic reduction are both reductionist in that they recognize the importance of seeking knowledge of brain processes at different levels of organization to understand cognitive function. They are also united in standing opposed to the attempts to divorce psychology and cognitive science from being constrained by our rapidly growing knowledge of brain processes and they both agree that information about molecular and cellular processes is also of potentially great relevance to understanding memory consolidation.
Keywords: memory consolidation, molecular processes, cellular processes, behavioral aspects, brain process, psychology, cognitive science, ruthless reduction, mechanistic reduction
William Bechtel is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the interdisciplinary programs in Cognitive Science and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on the nature of mechanistic explanations and strategies for developing such explanations in the life sciences, including cell and molecular biology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. His recent books include Connectionism and the Mind: Parallel Processing, Dynamics, and Evolution in Networks (with Adele Abrahamsen, 2002), Discovering Cell Mechanisms: The Creation of Modern Cell Biology (2006), and Mental Mechanisms: Philosophical Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience (2007). He is also editor of the interdisciplinary journal Philosophical Psychology.
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- The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience
- Contributors
- The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience
- Introduction
- Molecules, Systems, and Behavior: Another View of Memory Consolidation
- Biological Clocks: Explaining with Models of Mechanisms
- Methodology and Reduction in the Behavioral Neurosciences: Object Exploration as a Case Study
- The Science of Research and the Search for Molecular Mechanisms of Cognitive Functions
- The Lower Bounds of Cognition: What Do Spinal Cords Reveal?
- Lessons for Cognitive Science from Neurogenomics
- Learning, Neuroscience, and the Return of Behaviorism
- fMRI: A Modern Cerebrascope? The Case of Pain
- The Embedded Neuron, the Enactive Field?
- The Role of Neurobiology in Differentiating the Senses
- Enactivism's Vision: Neurocognitive Basis or Neurocognitively Baseless?
- Space, Time, and Objects
- Neurocomputational Models: Theory, Application, Philosophical Consequences
- Neuroanatomy and Cosmology
- The Emerging Theory of Motivation
- Inference to the Best Decision
- Emergentism at the Crossroads of Philosophy, Neurotechnology, and the Enhancement Debate
- What's “Neu” in Neuroethics?
- Confabulations about People and Their Limbs, Present or Absent
- Delusional Experience
- The Case for Animal Emotions: Modeling Neuropsychiatric Disorders
- Levels, Individual Variation, and Massive Multiple Realization in Neurobiology
- Neuro‐Eudaimonics or Buddhists Lead Neuroscientists to the Seat of Happiness
- The Neurophilosophy of Subjectivity
- Index
