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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814118803321

Autore

Botterill George

Titolo

The philosophy of psychology / / George Botterill and  Peter Carruthers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 1999

ISBN

1-107-11273-7

1-280-41693-9

0-511-15156-X

0-511-61242-7

0-511-17271-0

0-521-55111-0

0-511-05322-3

0-511-31072-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Altri autori (Persone)

CarruthersPeter <1952->

Disciplina

150/.1

Soggetti

Psychology - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-289) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: some background; 2 Folk-psychological commitments; 3 Modularity and nativism; 4 Mind-reading; 5 Reasoning and irrationality; 6 Content for psychology; 7 Content naturalised; 8 Forms of representation; 9 Consciousness: the final frontier?; References; Index of names; Index of subjects

Sommario/riassunto

What is the relationship between common-sense, or 'folk', psychology and contemporary scientific psychology? Are they in conflict with one another? Or do they perform quite different, though perhaps complementary, roles? George Botterill and Peter Carruthers discuss these questions, defending a robust form of realism about the commitments of folk psychology and about the prospects for integrating those commitments into natural science. Their focus throughout the book is on the ways in which cognitive science presents a challenge to our common-sense self-image - arguing that our native conception of the mind will be enriched, but not overturned, by



science. The Philosophy of Psychology is designed as a textbook for upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate students in philosophy and cognitive science, but as a text that not only surveys but  advances the debates on the topics discussed, it will also be of interest to researchers working in these areas.