The Philosophy of Psychology

ISBN-13: 9780521559157 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 312 str.

George Botterill; Peter Carruthers

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"This is an important addition to any collection in the philosophy of mind." Choice

Spis treści

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.