John Bickle
Biographic Data
| ID | 457852 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Bickle |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Bickle |
| SIGNATURE | BICKLE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8826-868X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What kind of a scientific revolution was the discovery of mammalian adult neurogenesis
Hodgkin’s and Huxley’s own assessments of their “quantitative description” of nerve membrane current
Tools of Neuroscience Experiment
The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment
Connection experiments in neurobiology
From Microscopes to Optogenetics
I introduce two new tools in experimental neurobiology, optogenetics and DREADDs (designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs). These tools permit unprecedented control over activity in specific neurons in behaving animals. In addition to their inherent scientific interest, these tools make an important contribution to philosophy of science. They illustrate the very premises of Ian Hacking’s “microscope” argument for the relative i…
Has the last decade of challenges to the multiple realization argument provided aid and comfort to psychoneural reductionists
The Oxford handbook of philosophy and neuroscience
The molecules of social recognition memory
A Physicalist Manifesto
Reducing mind to molecular pathways
Philosophy and Neuroscience
Concepts Structured Through Reduction
Vector Subtraction Implemented Neurally
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. 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 reduci…
New Wave Psychophysical Reductionism and the Methodological Caveats
A number of influences have combined to make reductionism an unpopular position in recent philosophy of mind and psychology. Davidson's Principle of the Anomalousness of the Mental, the multiple realizability arguments of Putnam, Fodor, and others, and attempts to characterize supervenience or dependency as the appropriate nonreductive relation to seek between psychological and physical kinds are the most well-known objections (Kim 1989). And the…
Mental Anomaly and the New Mind-Brain Reductionism
Davidson's principle of the anomalousness of the mental was instrumental in discrediting once-popular versions of mind-brain reductionism. In this essay I argue that a novel account of intertheoretic reduction, which does not require the sort of cross-theoretic bridge laws that Davidson's principle rules out, allows a version of mind-brain reductionism which is immune from Davidson's challenge. In the final section, I address a second worry about…
Reducing mind to molecular pathways
Has the last decade of challenges to the multiple realization argument provided aid and comfort to psychoneural reductionists
New Wave Psychophysical Reductionism and the Methodological Caveats
A number of influences have combined to make reductionism an unpopular position in recent philosophy of mind and psychology. Davidson's Principle of the Anomalousness of the Mental, the multiple realizability arguments of Putnam, Fodor, and others, and attempts to characterize supervenience or dependency as the appropriate nonreductive relation to seek between psychological and physical kinds are the most well-known objections (Kim 1989). And the…
From Microscopes to Optogenetics
I introduce two new tools in experimental neurobiology, optogenetics and DREADDs (designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs). These tools permit unprecedented control over activity in specific neurons in behaving animals. In addition to their inherent scientific interest, these tools make an important contribution to philosophy of science. They illustrate the very premises of Ian Hacking’s “microscope” argument for the relative i…
Concepts Structured Through Reduction
Connection experiments in neurobiology
Mental Anomaly and the New Mind-Brain Reductionism
Davidson's principle of the anomalousness of the mental was instrumental in discrediting once-popular versions of mind-brain reductionism. In this essay I argue that a novel account of intertheoretic reduction, which does not require the sort of cross-theoretic bridge laws that Davidson's principle rules out, allows a version of mind-brain reductionism which is immune from Davidson's challenge. In the final section, I address a second worry about…
Mental Anomaly and the New Mind-Brain Reductionism
Davidson's principle of the anomalousness of the mental was instrumental in discrediting once-popular versions of mind-brain reductionism. In this essay I argue that a novel account of intertheoretic reduction, which does not require the sort of cross-theoretic bridge laws that Davidson's principle rules out, allows a version of mind-brain reductionism which is immune from Davidson's challenge. In the final section, I address a second worry about…
New Wave Psychophysical Reductionism and the Methodological Caveats
A number of influences have combined to make reductionism an unpopular position in recent philosophy of mind and psychology. Davidson's Principle of the Anomalousness of the Mental, the multiple realizability arguments of Putnam, Fodor, and others, and attempts to characterize supervenience or dependency as the appropriate nonreductive relation to seek between psychological and physical kinds are the most well-known objections (Kim 1989). And the…
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. 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 reduci…
Vector Subtraction Implemented Neurally
Concepts Structured Through Reduction
Philosophy and Neuroscience
Reducing mind to molecular pathways
A Physicalist Manifesto
The molecules of social recognition memory
The Oxford handbook of philosophy and neuroscience
Has the last decade of challenges to the multiple realization argument provided aid and comfort to psychoneural reductionists
Connection experiments in neurobiology
From Microscopes to Optogenetics
I introduce two new tools in experimental neurobiology, optogenetics and DREADDs (designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs). These tools permit unprecedented control over activity in specific neurons in behaving animals. In addition to their inherent scientific interest, these tools make an important contribution to philosophy of science. They illustrate the very premises of Ian Hacking’s “microscope” argument for the relative i…
The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment
Tools of Neuroscience Experiment
Hodgkin’s and Huxley’s own assessments of their “quantitative description” of nerve membrane current
What kind of a scientific revolution was the discovery of mammalian adult neurogenesis
Cognitive science (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Neuroscience (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Metaphysics (7 works) · Philosophy of science (6 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Philosophy of language (5 works)