Neural Mechanisms

Fabrizio Calzavarini is a Post doc Researcher at the University of Bergamo, Italy, and is affiliated with the Center for Logic, Language, and Cognition, Turin, Italy. His research is organized into two interrelated streams. One stream falls at the intersection between the philosophy and neuroscience of semantics, focusing on the neural substrates of lexical competence. The other stream addresses philosophical issues in neuroscience more generally. He is the author of Brain and the Lexicon (Springer, 2020) and the co-organizer of Neural Mechanisms Online, a series of webinars and web-conferences in the philosophy of neuroscience.

Marco Viola is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turin, Italy. His core interest is the philosophy of neuroscience, especially cognitive ontology and the neuroscience of emotion. Other interests include face perception, philosophy of mind and the social epistemology of science. He is the co-organizer of Neural Mechanisms Online, a series of webinars and web-conferences in the philosophy of neuroscience

Part 1: Explanation and prediction.- Chapter 2. Bayesian Explanation in Neuroscience (David Kaplan, Chris Hewitson).- Chapter 3. Your Brain is Like a Computer: Function, Analogy, Simplification (Mazviita Chirimuuta).- Chapter 4. Circuital and developmental explanations for the cortex (Alessio Plebe).- Chapter 5. Prediction and Topological Models in Cognitive Neuroscience (Stanely Gessell, De Brigard Geib).- Chapter 6. Miscomputation in Computational Psychiatry (Matteo Colombo).- Part 2: New concepts and techniques.- Chapter 8. Evolving Concepts of "Hierarchy" in Systems Neuroscience (Daniel Burnston and Philipp Haueis).- Chapter 9. Neural reuse is a general mechanism, but Neural Darwinism is a fundamental theory (Luis Favela).- Chapter 10. Evaluating the Revolutionary Status of Innovations in Network Analysis: Conceptual Ambiguity and Instability as Signs of Progress in Cognitive Neuroscience (Jessey Wright).- Chapter 11. What does neural architecture tell us about human nature? (Charles Rathkopf).- Chapter 12. Is there a proper recipe for cumulative neuroscience? (Jacqueline Sullivan).- Part 3: Metaphysical challenges.- Chapter 13. The Mind-Body Problem 3.0 (Marco Nathan).- Chapter 14. Psychoneural Isomorphism: Metaphysics, Heuristics, and Robustness (Alfredo Vernazzani).- Chapter 15. Folk psychological and neurocognitive ontologies: incompatible or incommensurable? (Joe Dewhurst).- Chapter 16. (Gualtiero Piccinini).- Part 4: Mechanisms.- Chapter 17. On mechanistic triad: How Do Producing, Underlying and Maintaining Mechanisms Connect? (Lena Kästner).- Chapter 18. Constraints on Localization and Decomposition as Explanatory Strategies in the Biological Sciences 2.0 (Michael Silberstein).- Chapter 19. Unfolding the mechanisms of conscious experience (Matteo Grasso).- Chapter 20. Contrast and Compare: How to choose the relevant details for a mechanistic expla-nation.- Part 5: Bodily representations.- Chapter 21. Representation versus Transformation in Bodily Representation (Colin Klein and Peter Clutton).- Chapter 22. Categorically perceiving motor actions (Chiara Brozzo).- Chapter 23. Mechanisms of Embodiment (Hong Yu Wong).