Philosophy and Neuroscience

One: From New Wave Reduction to New Wave Metascience.- 1. Why Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience?.- 2. Background: The Intertheortic Reduction Reformulation of the Mind-Body Problem.- 3. Revolts Against Nagel’s Account.- Extending Hooker’s Insight: New Wave Reduction.- 5. WWSD? (What Would Socrates Do?).- Notes.- Two: Reduction-in-Practice in Current Mainstream Neuroscience.- 1. A Proposed “Psychoneural Link”.- 2. Two Psychological Features of Memory Consolidation.- 3. LTP is Discovered.- 4. Molecular Mechanisms of LTP: One Current Model.- 5. But is This Really Memory (Consolidation)?.- 6. The Nature of “Psychoneural Reduction” at Work in Current Mainstream (Cellular and Molecular) Neuroscience.- Notes.- Three: Mental Causation, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Multiple Realization.- 1. The Problem of Mental Causation.- 2. Letting Neuroscientific Practice be Our Guide.- 3. What About Cognitive Neuroscience?.- 4. Putnam’s Challenge and the Multiple Realization Orthodoxy.- 5Molecular Mechanisms of Nondeclarative Memory Consolidation in Invertebrates.- 6. Evolutionary Conservatism at the Molecular Level: The Expected Scope of Shared Molecular Mechanisms.- 7. Consequences For Current Philosophy of Mind.- Notes.- Four: Consciousness.- 1. Prefrontal Neurons Possess Working Memory Fields.- 2. Construction and Modulation of Memory Fields: From Circuit Connectivities to Receptor Proteins.- 3. Explicit Attention and Its Unremarkable Effects on Individual Neuron Activity.- 4. Single-Cell Neurophysiology and the “Hard Problem”.- 5. Inducing Phenomenology From Visual Motion to Somatosensory Flutter … And Beyond?.- 6. The Strange Case of Phenomenal Externalism.- 7. The “Hard Problem” and the Society for Neuroscience Crowd.- Notes.