
The Mind As a Scientific Object
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- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: Can Cognitive Science Locate and Provide a Correct Account of the Mind's Center? Progress Toward the Literal
- I: Where Are We at Present, and How Did We Get There?
- Introduction
- 1 The Relevance of the Philosophy of Psychology to a Science of Psychology
- 2 Mind as a Scientific Object: A Historical-Philosophical Exploration
- 3 The Emergence of Minds in Space and Time
- 4 Is the Mind a Scientific Object of Study? Lessons from History
- II: Is the Study of Mind Continuous with the Rest of Science?
- Introduction
- 5 Psychology as Engineering
- 6 Epistemic Dualism
- 7 Mind, Brain, and Culture
- 8 Chalmers's Naturalistic Dualism: The Irrelevance of the Mind-Body Problem to the Scientific Study of Consciousness
- 9 Emergence and Efficacy
- III: Eliminative Materialism: Sound or Mistaken?
- Introduction
- 10 A Particularly Compelling Refutation of Eliminative Materialism
- 11 Commonsense Refutations of Eliminativism
- 12 What Does It Take to Be a True Believer? Against the Opulent Ideology of Eliminative Materialism
- 13 Connectionism and the Propositional Attitudes
- IV: Is "Mind" Just Another Name for the Brain and What the Brain Does?
- Introduction
- 14 All in the Interest of Time: On the Problem of Speed and Cognition
- 15 Can There Be a Cognitive Neuroscience of Central Cognitive Systems?
- 16 The Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory: A Framework for the Science of Mind
- 17 Gall's Legacy Revisited: Decomposition and Localization in Cognitive Neuroscience
- V: Does Evolution Provide a Key to the Scientific Study of Mind?
- Introduction
- 18 The Detachment of Thought
- 19 The Mind as an Object of Scientific Study
- 20 The Significance of Ape Language Research
- 21 I Object: Mind and Brain as Darwinian Things
- VI: Is the Mind a Cultural Entity?
- Introduction
- 22 Ignace Meyerson and Cultural Psychology
- 23 Strong Culturalism
- 24 The Text of the Mind
- VII: Rationality: Cultural or Natural?
- Introduction
- 25 Beyond the Mind-Body Problem
- 26 Workshop Rationality, Dogmatism, and Models of the Mind
- 27 Is Cognitive Development Equivalent to Scientific Development?
- 28 Mind, Brain, and the Upper Paleolithic
- 29 Afterword: Between Brain and Culture-The Diversity of Mind
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