The Matter of the Mind

The Matter of the Mind addresses and illuminates the relationship between psychology and neuroscience by focusing on the topic of reduction. Written by leading philosophers in the field Discusses recent theorizing in the mind-brain sciences and reviews and weighs the evidence in favour of reductionism against the backdrop of recent important advances within psychology and the neurosciences Collects the latest work on central topics where neuroscience is now making inroads in traditional psychological terrain, such as adaptive behaviour, reward systems, consciousness, and social cognition.

The Matter of the Mind addresses and illuminates therelationship between psychology and neuroscience by focusing on thetopic of reduction.* Written by leading philosophers in the field* Discusses recent theorizing in the mind-brain sciences andreviews and weighs the evidence in favour of reductionism againstthe backdrop of recent important advances within psychology and theneurosciences* Collects the latest work on central topics where neuroscienceis now making inroads in traditional psychological terrain, such asadaptive behaviour, reward systems, consciousness, and socialcognition.

Contributors viiPreface and Acknowledgments ix1 Mind Matters: The Roots of Reductionism 1Maurice Schouten and Huib Looren de JongPart I Metaphysics of Science 292 Functionalism and Psychological Reductionism: Friends, NotFoes 31Andrew Melnyk3 Some Metaphysical Anxieties of Reductionism 51Thomas W. Polger4 The Metaphysics of Mechanisms and the Challenge of the NewReductionism 76Carl Gillett5 Reductionism, Embodiment, and the Generality of Psychology101Lawrence A. ShapiroPart II Philosophical Accounts of Reductionism, Mechanismand Co-evolution 1216 Reduction without the Structures 123Robert C. Richardson7 Reinforcing the Three "R"s: Reduction, Receptionand Replacement 146Ronald Endicott8 Reducing Psychology while Maintaining its Autonomy viaMechanistic Explanations 172William Bechtel9 Enriching Philosophical Models of Cross-Scientific Relations:Incorporating Diachronic Theories 199Robert N. McCauleyPart III Mechanisms of Mind 22510 Coupling, Emergence, and Explanation 227Andy Clark11 Is Psychological Explanation Going Extinct? 249Cory D. Wright12 Who Says You Can't Do a Molecular Biology ofConsciousness? 275John Bickle13 Mind Reading and Mirror Neurons: Exploring Reduction298Huib Looren de Jong and Maurice SchoutenName Index 323Subject Index 326