?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=An+Account+of+the+Relationship+between+Psychological+Capacities+and+Neurobiological+Activities&rft.creator=Johnson%2C+Gregory&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=This+paper+addresses+the+relationship+between+psychological+capacities%2C+as+they+are+understood+within+cognitive+psychology%2C+and+neurobiological+activities.+First%2C+Lycan's+(1987)+account+of+this+relationship+is+examined+and+certain+problems+with+his+account+are+explained.+According+to+Lycan%2C+psychological+capacities+occupy+a+higher+level+than+neurobiological+activities+in+a+hierarchy+of+levels+of+nature%2C+and+psychological+entities+can+be+decomposed+into+neurobiological+ones.+In+the+second+half+of+this+paper%2C+an+alternative+account+is+laid+out.+This+new+account+uses+levels+of+organization+and+levels+of+explanation+to+create+a+two-dimensional+model.+Psychological+capacities+occupy+a+high+level+of+explanation+relative+to+the+cellular+and+molecular+levels+of+organization.+Consequently%2C+according+to+this+model%2C+psychological+capacities+are+a+particular+way+of+describing+the+activities+that+occur+at+the+cellular+and+molecular+levels+of+organization.&rft.date=2009-09-01&rft.type=Other&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7063%2F1%2FLycan_Levels.pdf&rft.identifier=++Johnson%2C+Gregory++(2009)+An+Account+of+the+Relationship+between+Psychological+Capacities+and+Neurobiological+Activities.+++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7063%2F