The Philosophy of Psychology
given the variety of ways in which creatures might have sensations of the same type and the variety of ways in which thinkers mi ...
prayers. It accounts for the multiple realisability of mental states, the chief stumbling-block for an ‘immodest’ type-identity ...
systematic relations between such states and their characteristic causes and eVects. So it seems that we have a common-sense the ...
causal role of pain which are not pains (which lack the appropriate kind of feel). 1.5 The theory-theory In response to such diY ...
In fact one of the main messages of this book is that the theory-theory account of our common-sense psychology is a fruitful fra ...
psychology is no science. What realists in the philosophy of science main- tain is that it is the main task of scientiWc theorie ...
For example, Freud clearly challenges some common-sense psychological conceptions. He is also clearly a realist both about inten ...
2.2 Methodological behaviourism We have already mentioned the arguments againstbehaviourism in philos- ophy(logical behaviourism ...
modularityandnativism. The message, in brief, is that a signiWcant part of our psychological capacitiesmature without learning. ...
view, it seemed clear that linguistic production and linguistic comprehen- sion requires the presence of a rich knowledge-base i ...
complained of this style of boxological representation that, if not com- pletely black, these are at leastdarkboxes within the o ...
system of inter-linked computers. Apart from the availability of computers as devices for modelling natural cognition and as an ...
requires an innate symbolic medium orlanguage of thought(generally referred to as ‘LoT’, or ‘Mentalese’). One of his early argum ...
Figure 1.1 A simple three-layered network layers of processing units (‘neurons’). In principle, one can have as many layers in a ...
learning rules used to train up networks). After a number of trials on a given set of inputs and a series of modiWcations of the ...
3 Conclusion The take-home message of this introductory chapter is that in the back- ground to our discussions throughout the re ...
2 Folk-psychological commitments How are folk psychology and scientiWc psychology related? Are they complementary, or in competi ...
underlying behaviour; and it is quite another thing to say that those commitments are correct. Note that, as we are understandin ...
system of deferents and epicycles, was originally intended by him in exactly this spirit – tosave the phenomena, with no commitm ...
and prediction of coming conduct in Dennett’s. Somehow folk psychology itself has to handle questions about why people did what ...
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