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UNINA9910814118803321 |
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Botterill George |
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Titolo |
The philosophy of psychology / / George Botterill and Peter Carruthers |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 1999 |
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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 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-289) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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