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Could the neural ABC explain the mind?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2004

Maurice K. D. Schouten  and
Huib Looren de Jong
Maurice K. D. Schouten*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Philosophy, Tilburg University, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
Huib Looren de Jong*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
*
m.k.d.schouten@uvt.nl
m.k.d.schouten@uvt.nl
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Abstract

Gold & Stoljar are right in rejecting the radical neuron doctrine, but we argue that their distinction between determination and explanation is not principled enough to support their conclusion. We claim that the notions of multiple supervenience and screening-off offer a more precise construal of the dissociation between explanation and determination that lies at the heart of the antireductionist position.

Type
Continuing Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 311 - 312
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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