The Hodgkin-Huxley Equations and the Concrete Model

Comments on Craver, Schaffner, and Weber

Bibliographic Data

ID14433155
AuthorsJim Bogen (corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume75
Issue5
Pages1034-1046
Publication date2008-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy of Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8248 • E-ISSN: 1539-767X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1086/594544
OpenAlexW2079800491
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited8

I claim that the Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) current equations owe a great deal of their importance to their role in bringing results from experiments on squid giant action preparations to bear on the study of the action potential in other neurons in other in vitro and in vivo environments. I consider ideas from Weber and Craver about the role of Coulomb's and other fundamental equations in explaining the action potential and in HH's development of their equations. Also, I offer an embellishment to Schaffner's emergent unifier conception of the HH model

Action (physics) · Epistemology · Hodgkin–Huxley model · Mathematical economics · Physics · Quantum mechanics · Applied Mathematics · Mathematics · Neural dynamics and brain function · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Photoreceptor and optogenetics research · Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies · Psychology

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