NDLI: The role of supervenience and constitution in neuroscientific research

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Harbecke, Jens
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	This paper is concerned with the notions of supervenience and mechanistic constitution as they have been discussed in the philosophy of neuroscience. Since both notions essentially involve specific dependence and determination relations among properties and sets of properties, the question arises whether the notions are systematically connected and how they connect to science. In a first step, some definitions of supervenience and mechanistic constitution are presented and tested for logical independence. Afterwards, certain assumptions fundamental to neuroscientific inquiry are made explicit in order to show that the presented definitions of supervenience are virtually uninteresting for theory construction in this field. In a third step, a new formulation of supervenience is developed that makes explicit reference to the notion of constitution and that bridges the gap between the philosophical concepts and explanatory practice in neuroscience.
Starting Page	725
Ending Page	743
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00397857
Journal	Synthese
Volume Number	191
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	15730964
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2013-06-29
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Supervenience Mechanistic constitution Constitutive explanation Neuroscientific methodology Determination Dependence Philosophy of Science Epistemology Logic Philosophy of Language Metaphysics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Social Sciences

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