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The following is a book which readers of this list might find of interest.  
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Psychoneural Reduction
The New Wave
John Bickle

One of the central problems in the philosophy of psychology is an updated 
version of the old mind-body problem: how levels of theories in the 
behavioral and brain sciences relate to one another. Many contemporary 
philosophers of mind believe that cognitive-psychological theories are not 
reducible to neurological theories. However, this antireductionism has not 
spawned a revival of dualism. Instead, most nonreductive physicalists 
prefer the idea of a one-way dependence of the mental on the physical.

In Psychoneural Reduction, John Bickle presents a new type of 
reductionism, one that is stronger than one-way dependency yet sidesteps 
the arguments that sank classical reductionism. Although he makes some 
concessions to classical antireductionism, he argues for a relationship 
between psychology and neurobiology that shares some of the key aims, 
features, and consequences of classical reductionism. Parts of Bickle�s 
�new wave� reductionism have emerged piecemeal over the past two 
decades; this is his first comprehensive statement and defense of it to 
appear.

A Bradford Book
January 1998
$35.00
256 pp. 
ISBN 0-262-02432-2 
MIT Press * 5 Cambridge Center * Cambridge, MA  02142 * 
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