{"product_id":"neurocognitive-mechanisms-gualtiero-piccinini-9780198866282","title":"Neurocognitive Mechanisms: Explaining Biological Cognition","description":"In \u003cem\u003eNeurocognitive Mechanisms\u003c\/em\u003e Gualtiero Piccinini presents the most systematic, rigorous, and comprehensive philosophical defence to date of the computational theory of cognition. His view posits that cognition involves neural computation within multilevel neurocognitive mechanisms, and includes novel ideas about ontology, functions, neural representation, neural computation, and consciousness. He begins by defending an ontologically egalitarian account of composition and realization, according to which all levels are equally real. He then explicates multiple realizability and mechanisms within this ontologically egalitarian framework, defends a goal-contribution account of teleological functions, and defends a mechanistic version of functionalism. This provides the foundation for a mechanistic account of computation, which in turn clarifies the ways in which the computational theory of cognition is a multilevel mechanistic theory supported by contemporary cognitive neuroscience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePiccinini argues that cognition is computational at least in a generic sense. He defends the computational theory of cognition from standard objections, yet also rebuts putative \u003cem\u003ea priori\u003c\/em\u003e arguments. He contends that the typical vehicles of neural computations are representations, and that, contrary to the received view, the representations posited by the computational theory of cognition are observable and manipulatable in the laboratory. He also contends that neural computations are neither digital nor analog; instead, neural computations are \u003cem\u003esui generis\u003c\/em\u003e. He concludes by investigating the relation between computation and consciousness, suggesting that consciousness may be a functional phenomenon without being computational in nature. This book will be of interest to philosophers of cognitive science as well as neuroscientists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gualtiero Piccinini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198866283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198866282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/12\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.50w x 1.20d","brand":"Gualtiero Piccinini","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43943011746047,"sku":"9780198866282","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1a639612-7af8-42e8-add2-3707d758ca64.jpg?v=1681495698","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/neurocognitive-mechanisms-gualtiero-piccinini-9780198866282","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}