The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives

This volume establishes the conceptual foundation for sustained investigation into tool development in neuroscience. Neuroscience relies on diverse and sophisticated experimental tools, and its ultimate explanatory target—our brains and hence the organ driving our behaviors—catapults the investigation of these research tools into a philosophical spotlight.

The chapters in this volume integrate the currently scattered work on tool development in neuroscience into the broader philosophy of sci...