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Explaining the brain: mechanisms and the mosaic unity of neuroscience
New York : Oxford University Press,: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press (2007)
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Carl Craver investigates what we are doing when we sue neuroscience to explain what's going on in the brain.Author's Profile
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0199299315 9780199299317 0199568227 9780191715075
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