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Degree(s):

• Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
• M.A., University of California, Irvine
• B.A., University of California, Los Angeles

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• Professor

Achievements:

• American Philosophical Association’s (APA) representative to the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) Section V: Neuroscience - 2017-Present
• College of Arts and Sciences Annual Research Award - 2014-2015
• Director of Deep South Philosophy & Neuroscience Workshop

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Books:

• The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives. Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge, 2021
• Psychoneural Reduction: The New Wave. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998
• Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Ruthlessly Reductive Account 1st Edition
• Understanding Scientific Reasoning
• Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience
• Engineering the Next Revolution in Neuroscience: The New Science of Experiment Planning

Bio:

Dr. Bickle is a professor of Philosophy at Mississippi State University. His research focuses on the philosophy of neuroscience. From the late 1980s into the early 2000s he defended a view he labeled “new wave psychoneural reduction,” which was heavily influenced by the work of Paul and Patricia Churchland. Starting in the early 2000s, over the next decade his focus turned away from more traditional approaches in the philosophy of science to a science-in-practice approach and a method he called “metascience.” Focusing on landmark studies from the neurobiological field of ‘molecular and cellular cognition,’ he articulated and defended a novel view he called “ruthless reduction.” He is available for commentary and analysis on these and related topics.