Explaining the Brain: Mechanisms and the Mosaic Unity of NeuroscienceWhat distinguishes good explanations in neuroscience from bad? Carl F. Craver constructs and defends standards for evaluating neuroscientific explanations that are grounded in a systematic view of what neuroscientific explanations are: descriptions of multilevel mechanisms. In developing this approach, he draws on a wide range of examples in the history of neuroscience (e. g. Hodgkin and Huxleys model of the action potential and LTP as a putative