Carl F. Craver.
Explaining the Brain: mechanisms and the mosaic unity of neuroscience.
OUP. 2007
What distinguishes good explanations in neuroscience from bad?
Carl F. Craver constructs and defends standards for evaluating
neuroscientific explanations that are grounded in a systematic view
of what neuroscientific explanations are: descriptions of multilevel mechanisms.
In developing this approach, he draws on a wide range of examples
in the history of neuroscience
(e.g. Hodgkin and Huxley’s model of the action potential
and LTP as a putative explanation for different kinds of memory),
as well as recent philosophical work on the nature of scientific explanation.
Readers in neuroscience, psychology, the philosophy of mind,
and the philosophy of science will find much to provoke and stimulate them in this book.