• Construct Stabilization and the Unity of the Mind-Brain Sciences Sullivan, Jacqueline Anne 2016 Philosophy of Science , Vol. 83 , Issue 5 , S. 662 ff. ( Zeitschrift ) Englisch 0031-8248 | 1539-767X Abstract

    This article offers a critique of an account of explanatory integration that claims that explanations of cognitive capacities by functional analyses and mechanistic explanations can be seamlessly integrated. It is shown that achieving such explanatory integration requires that the terms designating cognitive capacities in the two forms of explanation are stable but that experimental practice in the mind-brain sciences currently is not directed at achieving such stability. A positive proposal for changing experimental practice so as to promote such stability is put forward, and its implications for explanatory integration are briefly considered.

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Sullivan, Jacqueline Anne

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