How to build a theory in cognitive science /

How to Build a Theory in Cognitive Science specifies the characteristics of fruitful interdisciplinary theories in cognitive science and shows how they differ from the successful theories in the individual disciplines composing the cognitive sciences. It articulates a method for integrating the vari...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hardcastle, Valerie Gray
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1996.
Colección:SUNY series in philosophy and biology.
Temas:
Philosophy of mind.
Philosophy and cognitive science.
Functionalism (Psychology)
Reductionism.
Cognitive science > Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Human information processing.
Cognitive Science
Philosophy
Mental Processes
Philosophie de l'esprit.
Philosophie et sciences cognitives.
Fonctionnalisme (Psychologie)
Réductionnisme.
Sciences cognitives > Philosophie.
Philosophie.
Traitement de l'information chez l'homme.
philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Mind & Body.
Psychology.
Humanities.
Cognitiewetenschap.
Philosophy & Religion.
Speculative Philosophy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Cognitive Science Is Not Cognitive Psychology
  • Ch. 2. The Dilemma of Mental Causality.
  • Mental States as Higher Level Properties.
  • Privileged Regularities and Ceteris Paribus Clauses.
  • Screening off Causes.
  • Ignoring the Realism/Antirealism Debate
  • Ch. 3. Hierarchies in the Brain.
  • The Neuron.
  • The Methodological Individualism/Anti-Individualism Debate.
  • Hierarchies in Neuroscience.
  • "Privileged" Causality in Neuroscience.
  • Explanation in Cognitive Science
  • Ch. 4. Computationalism and Functional Analysis: A Pragmatic Approach.
  • Formal Accounts of Computationalism.
  • Computational Satisfaction and True Computation.
  • Functionalism and Functional Analysis.
  • Philosophical Functionalism.
  • An Example.
  • The Function/Structure Distinction
  • Ch. 5. Reductionism in the Cognitive Sciences.
  • Reductionism in Philosophy of Mind.
  • Arguments against Reductionism.
  • Cognitive Theories of Emotion: A Test Case.
  • Explanatory Extension.

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