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ISBN 10: 0203028953
ISBN 13: 9780203028957
Author: Jose Luis Bermudez
Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that includes classic and contemporary readings from leading philosophers. Addressing in depth the major topics within philosophy of psychology, the editor has carefully selected articles under the following headings: pictures of the mind commonsense psychology representation and cognitive architecture. Articles by the following philosophers are included: Blackburn, Churchland, Clark, Cummins, Dennett, Davidson, Fodor, Kitcher, Lewis, Lycan, McDowell, McLeod, Rey, Segal, Stich. Each section includes a helpful introduction by the editor which aims to guide the student gently into the topic. The book is highly accessible and provides a broad-ranging exploration of the subject, including discussion of the leading philosophers in the field. Ideal for any student of philosophy of psychology or philosophy of mind.
Table of contents:
Part I: Pictures of the Mind
Chapter 1: D.C. Dennett, “Personal and Sub-personal Levels of Explanation”
Chapter 2: D. Davidson, “Psychology as Philosophy”
Chapter 3: J. Hornsby, “Physicalist Thinking and Conceptions of Behaviour”
Chapter 4: D. Lewis, “Reduction of Mind”
Chapter 5: R. Van Gulick, “Functionalism, Information and Content”
Chapter 6: R. Cummins, “‘How Does It Work?’ versus ‘What Are the Laws?’: Two Conceptions of Psychological Explanation”
Chapter 7: J.A. Fodor, “The Language of Thought: First Approximations”
Chapter 8: G. Rey, “A Not ‘Merely Empirical’ Argument for a Language of Thought”
Chapter 9: P.S. Churchland and T.J. Sejnowski, “Neural Representation and Neural Computation”
Chapter 10: P. McLeod, K. Plunkett, and E.T. Rolls, “The Attraction of Parallel Distributed Processing for Modelling Cognition”
Part II: Commonsense Psychology
Chapter 11: J. Fodor, “The Persistence of the Attitudes”
Chapter 12: S.P. Stich, “Autonomous Psychology and the Belief–Desire Thesis”
Chapter 13: W. Ramsey, S. Stich and J. Garon, “Connectionism, Eliminativism and The Future of Folk Psychology”
Chapter 14: D.C. Dennett, “Real Patterns”
Chapter 15: P.M. Churchland, “Folk Psychology and the Explanation of Human Behavior”
Chapter 16: A.I. Goldman, “Interpretation Psychologized”
Chapter 17: R.M. Gordon, “Simulation Without Introspection or Inference from Me to You”
Part III: Representation and Cognitive Architecture
Chapter 18: D. Marr, “Vision”
Chapter 19: A. Newell and H.A. Simon, “Computer Science as Empirical Enquiry: Symbols and Search”
Chapter 20: D.C. Dennett, “Cognitive Wheels: The Frame Problem of AI”
Chapter 21: T. Horgan and J. Tienson, “Levels of Description in Nonclassical Cognitive Science”
Chapter 22: T. van Gelder, “Compositionality: A Connectionist Variation on a Classical Theme”
Chapter 23: J.A. Fodor, “Précis of The Modularity of Mind”
Chapter 24: G. Currie and K. Sterelny, “How to Think About the Modularity of Mind-reading”
Chapter 25: L. Cosmides and J. Tooby, “Origins of Domain Specificity: The Evolution of Functional Organization”
Chapter 26: S.P. Stich, “Beliefs and Subdoxastic States”
Chapter 27: G. Evans, “Semantic Theory and Tacit Knowledge”
Chapter 28: G. Harman, “Language, Thought, and Communication”
Chapter 29: P. Carruthers, “The Cognitive Functions of Language”
Chapter 30: J.L. Bermúdez, “Language and Thinking about Thoughts”
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