Mental Mechanisms: Philosophical Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience, by William Bechtel. New York, NY: Routledge, 2008, 328 pp. [Book Review]

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Book review of William Bechtel's book Mental Mechanist. The book outlines a new and original program for the philosophy of cognitive science using an original concept of mechanism as its core idea. Bechtel’s concept of mechanism is intended to allow for a naturalized science of the mind that is continuous with the other sciences. The review goes through all the claims made in the book.

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original Bizarro, Sara (2008) "Mental Mechanisms: Philosophical Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience". Disputatio 3(25):66-72

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