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The mind as a scientific object : between brain and culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Erneling, Christina E., 1951-, Johnson, David Martel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Psychology.
Cognition.
Thinking.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Where are we at present, and how did we get there?
  • The relevance of the philosophy of psychology to a science of psychology
  • Mind as a scientific object : a historical-philosophical exploration
  • The emergence of minds in space and time
  • Is the mind a scientific object of study? Lessons from history
  • II. Is the study of mind continuous with the rest of science?
  • Psychology as engineering
  • Epistemic dualism
  • Mind, brain, and culture
  • Chalmers's naturalistic dualism : the irrelevance of the mind-body problem to the scientific study of consciousness
  • Emergence and efficacy
  • III. Eliminative materialism : sound or mistaken?
  • A particularly compelling refutation of eliminative materialism
  • Commonsense refutations of eliminativism
  • What does it take to be a true believer? Against the opulent ideology of eliminative materialism
  • Connectionism and the propositional attitudes
  • IV. Is "mind" just another name for the brain and what the brain does?
  • All in the interest of time : on the problem of speed and cognition
  • Can there be a cognitive neuroscience of central cognitive systems?
  • The cognitive neuroscience laboratory : a framework for the science of mind
  • Gall's legacy revisted : decomposition and localization in cognitive neuroscience
  • V. Does evolution provide a key to the scientific study of mind?
  • The detachment of thought
  • The mind as an object of scientific study
  • The significance of ape language research
  • I object : mind and brain as Darwinian things
  • VI. Is the mind a cultural entity?
  • Ignace Meyerson and cultural psychology
  • Strong culturalism
  • The text of the mind
  • VII. Rationality : cultural or natural?
  • Beyond the mind-body problem
  • Workshop rationality, dogmatism, and models of the mind
  • Is cognitive development equivalent to scientific development?
  • Mind, brain, and the upper paleolithic
  • Afterword : between brain and culture--the diversity of mind