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Psychoneural Reduction : The New Wave, Paperback Book

Psychoneural Reduction : The New Wave Paperback

Part of the Psychoneural Reduction series

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One of the central problems in the philosophy of psychology is an updated version of the old mind-body problem: how levels of theories in the behavioral and brain sciences relate to one another.

Many contemporary philosophers of mind believe that cognitive-psychological theories are not reducible to neurological theories.

However, this antireductionism has not spawned a revival of dualism.

Instead, most nonreductive physicalists prefer the idea of a one-way dependence of the mental on the physical.

In Psychoneural Reduction, John Bickle presents a new type of reductionism, one that is stronger than one-way dependency yet sidesteps the arguments that sank classical reductionism.

Although he makes some concessions to classical antireductionism, he argues for a relationship between psychology and neurobiology that shares some of the key aims, features, and consequences of classical reductionism.

Parts of Bickle's "new wave" reductionism have emerged piecemeal over the past two decades; this is his first comprehensive statement and defense of it to appear.

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