Mind : a historical and philosophical introduction to the major theories /

Main Author: Kukla, André, 1942-
Other Authors: Walmsley, Joel.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis, IN : Hackett Pub. Co., c2006.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Cartesianism
  • Dualism and materialism
  • Three arguments against dualism
  • Voluntarism and determinism
  • The rise and fall of introspective psychology
  • Introspectionism
  • The behaviorist critique
  • The psychoanalytic critique
  • The phenomenological critique
  • The third generation
  • The background of psychoanalysis
  • Irrational behavior
  • The concept of the unconscious
  • The existence of the unconscious
  • Other minds
  • Resistance
  • The theory of psychoanalysis
  • The pleasure principle
  • The reality principle
  • Moral behavior
  • Anxiety and defense
  • Psychology loses its mind : the behavioral revolution
  • Behaviorism and behavioral psychology
  • Classical conditioning
  • The law of effect
  • Drive theory
  • Critique of drive theory and psychoanalysis
  • The refutation of the strong law of effect
  • The refutation of behavioral psychology
  • The transition from behaviorism to cognitive science
  • Methodological behaviorism
  • Metaphysical behaviorism
  • Central state identity theory
  • Type and token identity
  • Functionalism
  • Mind regained : the cognitive revolution
  • Folk psychology
  • Rational belief
  • The representational theory of mind
  • The language of thought
  • Universal grammar
  • The modularity of mind
  • AI
  • Weak AI
  • Strong AI
  • Mind extended : connectionist, dynamical, and situated cognitive science
  • Connectionism
  • Criticisms of connectionism
  • The dynamical approach
  • Situated cognition.