What levels of explanation in the behavioural sciences?
Complex systems are to be seen as typically having multiple levels of organization. For instance, in the behavioural and cognitive sciences, there has been a long lasting trend, promoted by the seminal work of David Marr, putting focus on three distinct levels of analysis: the computational level, a...
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| author | Roberto Cordeschi Giuseppe Boccignone |
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| description | Complex systems are to be seen as typically having multiple levels of organization. For instance, in the behavioural and cognitive sciences, there has been a long lasting trend, promoted by the seminal work of David Marr, putting focus on three distinct levels of analysis: the computational level, accounting for the What and Why issues, the algorithmic and the implementational levels specifying the How problem. However, the tremendous developments in neuroscience knowledge about processes at different scales of organization together with the complexity of today cognitive theories suggest that there will hardly be only three levels of explanation. Instead, there will be many different degrees of commitments corresponding to the different granularities - from high-level (behavioural) models to low-level (neural and molecular) models of the cognitive research program. For instance, Bayesian approaches, that are usually advocated for formalizing Marr's computational level and rational behaviour, have even been adopted to model synaptic plasticity and axon guidance by molecular gradients. As a result, we can consider the behavioural scientist as dealing with models at a multiplicity of levels. The purpose of this Research Topic in Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology is to promote an approach to the role of the levels and explanation and models which is of interest for cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, psychologists, behavioural scientists, and philosophers of science. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-626352024-03-29T08:01:17Z What levels of explanation in the behavioural sciences? Roberto Cordeschi Giuseppe Boccignone BF1-990 Q1-390 Levels of explanation Cognitive architectures neuroscientific models Computational models human behavior Functional models Reductionism mechanisms bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology Complex systems are to be seen as typically having multiple levels of organization. For instance, in the behavioural and cognitive sciences, there has been a long lasting trend, promoted by the seminal work of David Marr, putting focus on three distinct levels of analysis: the computational level, accounting for the What and Why issues, the algorithmic and the implementational levels specifying the How problem. However, the tremendous developments in neuroscience knowledge about processes at different scales of organization together with the complexity of today cognitive theories suggest that there will hardly be only three levels of explanation. Instead, there will be many different degrees of commitments corresponding to the different granularities - from high-level (behavioural) models to low-level (neural and molecular) models of the cognitive research program. For instance, Bayesian approaches, that are usually advocated for formalizing Marr's computational level and rational behaviour, have even been adopted to model synaptic plasticity and axon guidance by molecular gradients. As a result, we can consider the behavioural scientist as dealing with models at a multiplicity of levels. The purpose of this Research Topic in Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology is to promote an approach to the role of the levels and explanation and models which is of interest for cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, psychologists, behavioural scientists, and philosophers of science. 2021-02-12T08:30:32Z 2021-02-12T08:30:32Z 2016-03-10 08:14:32 2015 book 18707 16648714 9782889195978 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/62635 eng Frontiers Research Topics image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International http://www.frontiersin.org/books/What_levels_of_explanation_in_the_behavioural_sciences_/611#nogo http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/1674/what-levels-of-explanation-in-the-behavioural-sciences Frontiers Media SA 10.3389/978-2-88919-597-8 10.3389/978-2-88919-597-8 bf5ce210-e72e-4860-ba9b-c305640ff3ae 9782889195978 91 open access |
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