The Philosophy of Psychology
The Philosophy of Psychology
This book presents an original and accessible analysis of the relationship between commonsense, or "folk," psychology and contemporary scientific psychology, focusing on the ways in which cognitive science presents a challenge to our commonsense self-image. It is designed as a textbook for upper-level undergraduate and beginning postgraduate students in philosophy and cognitive science, but as a text that not only surveys but advances the debates on the topics discussed, it will also be of interest to researchers working in these areas.
- Accessibly written for students
- Offers alternative contributions to the debate which will interest researchers/scholars
- Combines sustained philosophical argument with recent psychological evidence
Reviews & endorsements
"This superb interdisciplinary introductory survey gives a comprehensive overview of the current state of research in the philosophy of psychology. ...a brilliant contribution to the newly emerging, and somewhat arduous, interdisciplinary project of cognitive science." Philosophical Psychology
"This is an important addition to any collection in the philosophy of mind." Choice
Product details
August 1999Paperback
9780521559157
312 pages
229 × 152 × 18 mm
0.5kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: some background
- 2. Folk-psychological commitments
- 3. Modularity and nativism
- 4. Mind-reading
- 5. Reasoning and irrationality
- 6. Content for psychology
- 7. Content naturalised
- 8. Forms of representation
- 9. Consciousness: the final frontier?
- References
- Index of names
- Index of subjects.
