Aliya Dewey - Design explanation in behavioral neuroscienceAliya R. Dewey (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
1117 Cathedral of Learning - 11th Floor
University of Pittsburgh, 4200 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh 15260
United States
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The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh invites you to join us for our Lunch Time Talk. Attend in person at 1117 Cathedral of Learning or visit our live stream on YouTube at Aliya Dewey
Friday, November 1st @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT
Title: Design explanation in behavioral neuroscience
Abstract: Explanation in behavioural neuroscience is often thought to be mechanistic—to explain stimulus-response pairs by describing a mechanism (working parts “causally between” stimuli and responses). I suggest that behavioural neuroscientists in fact want a richer form of explanation—one that explains task-performance pairs by describing some kind of correspondence between the mechanism and the structure required to perform the task. In other words, they want an explanation for how a mechanism realises competent task performance as such. Using a detailed case study of sound localisation in the barn owl (Tyto alba), I argue that this form of explanation—which I call “design explanation”—integrates mechanistic, minimal model, and constraint-based forms of explanation.
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Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/s/92798130196
YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg.
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