Cartesian psychology and physical minds : individualism and the sciences of the mind

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Cartesian psychology and physical minds : individualism and the sciences of the mind

Robert A. Wilson

(Cambridge studies in philosophy / general editor, Ernest Sosa)

Cambridge University Press, 1997

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 255-265

Includes index

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内容説明

This book offers a sustained critique of individualism in psychology, a view that has been the subject of debate between philosophers such as Jerry Fodor and Tyler Burge for many years. The author approaches individualism as an issue in the philosophy of science and by discussing issues such as computationalism and the mind's modularity he opens the subject up for non-philosophers in psychology and computer science. Professor Wilson carefully examines the most influential arguments for individualism and identifies the main metaphysical assumptions underlying them. Since the topic is so central to the philosophy of mind, a discipline generating enormous research and debate, the book has implications for a very broad range of philosophical issues including the naturalisation of intentionality, psychophysical supervenience, the nature of mental causation, and the viability of folk psychology.

目次

  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: what is individualism in psychology?
  • Part I. On Arguments for Individualism: 2. An a priori argument: the argument from causal powers
  • 3. An Empirical Argument: The Computational Argument
  • 4. Methodological arguments
  • Part II. Psychological Explanation and Mental Causation: 5. Rethinking the Role of Causal Powers in Taxonomy and Explanation
  • 6. Making sense of mental causation
  • 7. The Place of Folk Psychology: Computationalism, Individualism and Narrow Content
  • Part III. The Case Against Individualism: 8. The Causal Depth and Theoretical appropriateness of wide psychology
  • 9. Individualistic visions of psychology: prospects and problems
  • 10. Conclusion: Cartesian psychology and the science of the mind
  • References
  • Index.

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