The Science of the Mind

Flanagan Jr, Owen J

The Science of the Mind - London MIT Press 1989 - 336p

includes index and biblioraphy

Minds and Bodies: Rene Descartes and the Possibility of a Science of the Mind 1 Descartes` Philosophy of the Body: The Reflex Hypothesis. Descartes` Philosophy of Mind: Three Arguments for Dualism. Naturalizing the Mind: The Philosophical Psychology of William James 23 William James: Mentality and Introspection. Toward a Theory of Conscious Mental Life. Mind and Brain: How Is Conscious Mental Life Realized? Naturalism and Free Will. Science and the Secret Self: The Case of Sigmund Freud 55 Freud on the Mind-Body Problem and Psychological Explanation. Psychoanalysis and Self-Knowledge. Is Psychoanalysis Scientific? The Science of Behavior, Antimentalism, and the Good Life: The Philosophical Psychology of B. F. Skinner 83 Skinner`s Critique of Two Kinds of Mentalism. The Theoretician`s Dilemma. Skinner on Self-Knowledge. The Concept of the "Operant": Selection by Consequences. Psychology and the Good Life. The Case for Cognitive-Developmental Psychology: Piaget and Kohlberg 119 Cognitive Development, Empiricism, and Nativism. Stages and Structures. Assimilation, Accommodation, and Autoregulation. The Constructivist`s Fallacy. Piaget`s Adequacy Thesis. Lawrence Kohlberg: Duties, Dilemmas, and Moral Stages. Kohlberg`s Adequacy Thesis. Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence: Philosophical Assumptions and Implications 175 Cognitive Psychology: The Basic Program. Kant, Cognitive Psychology, and the Anticipation of Experience. Transcendental Reasoning: Two Experiments. Cognitive Psychology and Self-Knowledge. Cognitive Psychology and the Unity of Mind. Cognitive Psychology and Rationality. Cognitive Psychology and the Mind-Brain Problem. Cognitive Psychology and the Charms of Artificial Intelligence. Four Kinds of Artificial Intelligence. Ten Objections to Artificial Intelligence. Minds, Genes, and Morals: The Case of E. O. Wilson`s Sociobiology 249 The Conceptual Foundations of Sociobiology. Closing the Genotype- Phenotype Gap: The Opening Gambit. Closing the Genotype-Phenotype Gap: The New Argument. Sociobiology and Morality.

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