Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-296) and indexes.
Naturalism and mechanism: outlines of a new philosophy of science -- From mental phenomena to operations: delineating and decomposing memory -- From working parts to operations: decomposing visual processing -- Reduction and independence of higher-level sciences: a rapprochement -- Representations and mental mechanisms -- From responsive to active mechanisms -- Confronting mechanism's critics: accounting for freedom and dignity via mental mechanisms.