Brain, mind, and human behavior in contemporary cognitive science : critical assessments of the philosophy of psychology
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Brain, mind, and human behavior in contemporary cognitive science : critical assessments of the philosophy of psychology
Edwin Mellen Press, c2007
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Bibliography: p. 223-228
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book engages a range of currently debated issues in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, challenging certain cognitivist positions in contemporary neuroscience. In addressing each topic, an effort is made to illuminate the historical-philosophical origins of the problems confronted, exposing a central the way in which various forms of philosophical materialism are often uncritically invoked to buttress 'scientific' claims about the human mind/brain and behavior. The authors conclude that a radical reorientation is required if the confusion that permeates the field is to be eliminated.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Dr. P.M.S. Hacker
- Introduction
- Neural Metaphysics
- Materialist Conceptions of Mind: A Reappraisal
- Neural Causation and Freedom of Action
- Consciousness: The Last Mystery?
- Memory: Explaining Capacities versus Explaining Performances
- Dissolving the 'Projection Problem'
- Fetishing 'Syntax'
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
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