A Commentary on Cognitive & Behavioral Neuroscience

Philosophy of neuroscience is now a recognised field within the philosophy of the special sciences like biology, psychology and economics. The reductionism‐versus‐integrationism debate has reemerged in a stimulating new form thanks to the recent work by ‘new mechanist’ philosophers of neuroscience. The talk among mechanist‐integrationists, mechanistic reductionist and ruthless reductionists activates the viability and extent of nested hierarchies of mechanisms in neuroscience