The Philosophical Framework for Understanding Neuroscientific Research

Olga Markic ()
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Olga Markic: Faculty of Arts - University of Ljubljana

Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, 2013, vol. 11, issue 4, 351-362

Abstract: New tools and methods for investigating the brain have given neuroscientists a chance to examine the working brain and placed neuroscience as the central discipline in cognitive science. My main goal in this article is to examine theoretical and philosophical assumptions on which different understandings and interpretations of neuroscientific research are based and to show why philosophical reflection on neuroscience is needed. I first discuss different roles philosophy potentially plays in cognitive science. After a short presentation of Descartes' position concerning the mind body problem and cognitive science approaches to answer his challenge, I examine different theoretical frameworks for neuroscientific research.

Keywords: philosophy of cognitive science; Descartes; neurophilosophy; reduction; embodied cognition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 D84 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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