The Philosophy of Psychology

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  • 1 Introduction: some background Acknowledgements xii

    • 1 Developments in philosophy of mind

    • 2 Developments in psychology

    • 3 Conclusion



  • 2 Folk-psychological commitments

    • 1 Realisms and anti-realisms

    • 2 Two varieties of anti-realism

    • 3 The case for realism about folk psychology

    • 4 Realism and eliminativism

    • 5 Using folk psychology

    • 6 Conclusion



  • 3 Modularity and nativism

    • 1 Some background on empiricism and nativism

    • 2 The case for nativism

    • 3 Developmental rigidity and modularity

    • 4 Fodorian modularity

    • 5 Input systems versus central systems

    • 6 Conclusion



  • 4 Mind-reading

    • 1 The alternatives: theory-theory versus simulation

    • 2 Problems for simulationism

    • 3 A hybrid view

    • 4 Developmental studies

    • 5 Accounting for autistic impairments

    • 6 Conclusion



  • 5 Reasoning and irrationality

    • 1 Introduction: the fragmentation of rationality

    • 2 Some psychological evidence

    • 3 Philosophical arguments in defence of rationality

    • 4 Psychological explanations of performance

    • 5 Practical rationality

    • 6 Conclusion



  • 6 Content for psychology

    • 1 Introduction: wide versus narrow

    • 2 Arguments for wide content

    • 3 The coherence of narrow content

    • 4 Explanation and causation

    • 5 Folk-psychological content

    • 6 Conclusion



  • 7 Content naturalised

    • 1 Introduction

    • 2 Informational semantics

    • 3 Teleo-semantics

    • 4 Functional-role semantics

    • 5 Naturalisation versus reduction

    • 6 Conclusion



  • 8 Forms of representation

    • 1 Preliminaries: thinking in images

    • 2 Mentalese versus connectionism

    • 3 The place of natural language in thought

    • 4 Conclusion



  • 9 Consciousness: theWnal frontier?

    • 1 Preliminaries: distinctions and data

    • 2 Mysterianism

    • 3 Cognitivist theories

    • 4 Conclusion



  • References

  • Index of names

  • Index of subjects

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