The multiplicity of experimental protocols: A challenge to reductionist and non-reductionist models of the unity of neuroscience

Synthese

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 511-539

  Sullivan, Jacqueline A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiment; Experimentation; Explanation; Learning; Long term potentiation (LTP); Mechanism; Protocol; Reduction; Reliability; Unity; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 60849097831     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9389-4     Document Type: Article

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