The science of the mind

The science of the mind / Owen Flanagan.

Consciousness emerges as the key topic in this second edition of Owen Flanagan's popular introduction to cognitive science and the philosophy of psychology. in a new chapter Flanagan develops a neurophilosophical theory of subjective mental life. He brings recent developments in the theory of n...

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Main Author: Flanagan, Owen, Jr., 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1991.
©1991
Edition:2nd ed., rev. and expanded.
Series:Bradford book.
Subjects:
Psychology > Philosophy > History.
Philosophy of mind > History.
Philosophy of mind
Psychology > Philosophy
Processos Fisiologicos (Psicofisiologia)
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Minds and bodies: René Descartes and the possibility of a science of the mind
  • 2. Naturalizing the mind: the philosophical psychology of William James
  • 3. Science and the secret self: the case of Sigmund Freud
  • 4. The science of behavior, antimentalism, and the good life: the philosophical psychology of B.F. Skinner
  • 5. The case for cognitive-developmental psychology: Piaget and Kohlberg
  • 6. Cognitive science and artificial intelligence: philosophical assumptions and implications
  • 7. Minds, genes, and morals: the case of E.O. Wilson's sociobiology
  • 8. Consciousness.

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