TY - BOOK ID - 77929671 TI - From psychology to neuroscience : a new reductive account PY - 2011 SN - 3110322625 9783110322620 3868381082 9783868381085 3110322250 9783110322255 9783868381085 9783110322255 1299723888 PB - Frankfurt Ontos Verlag DB - UniCat KW - Mind and body. KW - Philosophy of mind. KW - Psychology KW - Neurosciences KW - Mind, Philosophy of KW - Mind, Theory of KW - Theory of mind KW - Philosophy KW - Cognitive science KW - Metaphysics KW - Philosophical anthropology KW - Body and mind KW - Body and soul (Philosophy) KW - Human body KW - Mind KW - Mind-body connection KW - Mind-body relations KW - Mind-cure KW - Somatopsychics KW - Brain KW - Dualism KW - Holistic medicine KW - Mental healing KW - Parousia (Philosophy) KW - Phrenology KW - Psychophysiology KW - Self KW - Philosophy. KW - Psychological aspects KW - Philosophy of science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77929671 AB - This book explores the mind-body issue from both the perspectives of philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. Starting from the problem of mental causation, it provides an overview of the contemporary metaphysical discussion and argues in favour of the token-identity thesis, as the only position that can account for the causal efficacy of the mental. Showing furthermore that this ontological reductionism is not dissociable from epistemological reductionism, the author applies a new strategy of inter-theoretic reduction, which is compatible with the multiple realizability of mental properties. Using functionally defined sub-types, this account establishes a conservative reduction of psychology to neuroscience, which vindicates both the scientific legitimacy and the theoretical indispensability of psychology. This account is illustrated by several empirical examples borrowed from contemporary neuroscience. ER -