Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings
Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings
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Author(s): Bermúdez, José Luis
ISBN No.: 9780415368612
Pages: 688
Year: 200609
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 248.40
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Part 1: Pictures of the Mind. Introduction. Further Reading. 1A: The Autonomous Mind. D. Dennett, Personal and Subpersonal Levels of Explanation. D. Davidson, Psychology as Philosophy.


J. Hornsby, Physicalist Thinking and Conceptions of Behavior. 1B: The Functional Mind. D. Lewis, Reduction of Mind. R. Van Gulick, Functionalism, Information, and Content. R.


Cummins, How Does it Work? vs What are the Laws? 1C: The Representational Mind. J. Fodor, First Approximations. G. Rey, A Not Merely Empirical Argument for a Language of Thought. 1D: The Neurocomputational Mind. P.S.


Churchland, T.J. Sejnowski, Neural Representation and Neural Computation. P. Mcleod, K. Plunkett, E.T. Rolls, The Attraction of Parallel Distributed Processing for Understanding Cognition.


Part 2: Common-Sense Psychology. Introduction. Further Reading. 2A: Commonsense Psychology and Explaining Behaviour. J. Fodor, The Persistence of the Attitudes. S. Stich, Autonomous Psychology and the Belief-Desire Thesis.


2B: Commonsense Psychology and Mental Representation. W. Ramsey, S. Stich, J. Garon, Connectionism, Eliminativism, and the Future of Folk Psychology. D. Dennett, Real Patterns. 2C: The Machinery of Commonsense Psychology: Theory or Simulation? P.


M. Churchland, Folk Psychology and the Explanation of Human Behavior. A. Goldman, Interpretation Psychologized. R. Gordon, Simulation without Introspection or Inference from Me to You. Part 3: Representation and Cognitive Architecture. Introduction.


Further Reading. 3A: Cognition as Computation. D. Marr, Vision. A. Newell, H.A. Simon, Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbol and Search.


D. Dennett, Cognitive Wheels: The Frame Problem of AI. 3B: Non-Classical Cognitive Architecture. T. Horgan, J. Tienson, Levels of Description in Non-Classical Cognitive Science. T. Van Gelder, Compositionality: A Connectionist Variation on a Classical Theme.


3C: Conceptions of Modularity. J. Fodor, The Modularity of Mind. G. Currie, K. Sterelny, How to Think about the Modularity of Mind-Reading. Cosmides, Leda, J. Tooby (1987), From Evolution to Behavior: Evolutionary Psychology as the Missing Link.


3D: Tacit Knowledge. S. Stich, Belief and Sub-Doxastic States. G. Evans, Semantic Theory and Tacit Knowledge. 3E: Thinking and Language. G. Harman, Language, Thought, and Communication.


P. Carruthers, The Cognitive Functions of Language. J. L. Bermùdez, Language and Thinking about Thoughts.


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