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Mental Mechanisms, Reductionism, and the Architecture of Mind–Brain Explanation: An Integrative Philosophical and Neuroscientific Analysis

Arjun Malhotra (Author) ¹

Pages: 1-5 || Published: 2025-07-04

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  The relationship between mind and brain remains one of the most enduring and contested issues in philosophy, neuroscience, and the biomedical sciences. Over the past century, increasingly sophisticated neuroscientific methods have transformed our understanding of neural structure and function, intensifying debates about reductionism, mechanis... More >

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Neural Decision-Making, Probability, and Psychiatric Vulnerability: Integrating Perceptual Choice, Temporal Evidence Accumulation, and Biological Complexity

Dr. Alejandro Martín-Rojas (Author) ¹

Pages: 6-10 || Published: 2025-09-11

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  Decision-making is one of the most fundamental operations of the human brain, linking sensory input, internal representations, motivational states, and overt action. Over the past several decades, neuroscience has moved from descriptive localization of function toward mechanistic accounts of how neural populations encode evidence, integrate i... More >

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Neural Synchrony, Reductionism, and Stigma: Integrating Neurophenomenology and Social Theory in Contemporary Understandings of Mental Illness

Dr. Alejandro Moreno (Author) ¹

Pages: 11-15 || Published: 2025-12-18

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  Mental illness occupies a uniquely complex position at the intersection of neuroscience, philosophy of mind, social theory, and public morality. Over the past several decades, dominant explanatory frameworks have increasingly emphasized biomedical, genetic, and neurochemical accounts of mental disorder, often framed through reductionist scien... More >