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Mental Mechanisms: Philosophical Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience

William Bechtel

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Contents: Naturalism and Mechanism: Outlines of a New Philosophy of Science. From Mental Phenomena to Operations: Delineating and Decomposing Memory. From Working Parts to Operations: Decomposing and Resynthesizing Visual Processing. Reduction and Independence of Higher-Level Sciences: A Rapprochement. Representations and Mental Mechanisms. From Responsive to Active Mechanisms. Confronting Mechanism's Critics: Accounting for Freedom and Dignity via Mental Mechanisms.

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Key concepts: Mechanism (biology), Naturalism, Cognitive science, Dignity, Cognition, Independence (probability theory), Psychology, Mental operations