Cartographies of the Mind: Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection (Studies in Brain and Mind Book 4)

The present book is a collection of essays exploring some classical dimensions of mind both from the perspective of an empirically-informed philosophy and from the point of view of a philosophically-informed psychology. In the last three decades, the level of interaction between philosophy and psychology has increased dramatically. As a contribution to this trend, this book explores some areas in which this interaction has been very productive – or, at least, highly provocative. The interaction between philosophy and psychology can be of different kinds. For example, psychology can be the subject for philosophy of science. In such a case, the philosopher of science pursues the usual set of issues (explanation, reduction, etc.) within the special case of psychology. Or, philosophy can be the source of proposals for improving psychology. Vice versa, the findings of psychology can be used to criticize philosophical theories and suggest ways to resolve some traditional philosophical questions about the mind, such as the nature of mental representation, perception, emotion, memory, consciousness and free will. The chapters in this book reflect these different forms of interaction in an effort to clarify issues and debates concerning some traditional cognitive capacities. The result is a philosophically and scientifically up-to-date collection of "cartographies of the mind". Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Setting the Stage: Persons, Minds and Brains....Pages 3-22 Computational Explanation and Mechanistic Explanation of Mind....Pages 23-36 Computationalism Under Attack....Pages 37-49 Front Matter....Pages 51-51 Vision Science and the Problem of Perception....Pages 53-64 Synaesthesia, Functionalism and Phenomenology....Pages 65-80 Integrating the Philosophy and Psychology of Memory: Two Case Studies....Pages 81-92 Emotion and Cognition: A New Map of the Terrain....Pages 93-103 Categorization and Concepts: A Methodological Framework....Pages 105-116 Errors in Deductive Reasoning....Pages 117-130 Language and Comprehension Processes....Pages 131-143 Front Matter....Pages 145-145 The Unconscious....Pages 147-158 Self-Deception and Hypothesis Testing....Pages 159-167 Autonomous Agency and Social Psychology....Pages 169-185 The Cognitive Role of Phenomenal Consciousness....Pages 187-199 The Unity of Consciousness: A Cartography....Pages 201-210 Extended Cognition and the Unity of Mind. Why We are Not “Spread into the World”....Pages 211-225 Extreme Self-Denial....Pages 227-242 Empirical Psychology, Transcendental Phenomenology, and the Self....Pages 243-254 How to Deal with the Free Will Issue: The Roles of Conceptual Analysis and Empirical Science....Pages 255-268 The Beliefs of Mute Animals....Pages 269-282 Front Matter....Pages 145-145 Naive Psychology and Simulations....Pages 283-294 The Social Mind....Pages 295-308 Social Behaviors and Brain Interventions: New Strategies for Reductionists....Pages 309-317

The present book is a collection of essays exploring some classical dimensions of mind both from the perspective of an empirically-informed philosophy and from the point of view of a philosophically-informed psychology.

In the last three decades, the level of interaction between philosophy and psychology has increased dramatically. As a contribution to this trend, this book explores some areas in which this interaction has been very productive-or, at least, highly provocative.

The interaction between philosophy and psychology can be of different kinds. For example, psychology can be the subject for philosophy of science. In such a case, the philosopher of science pursues the usual set of issues (explanation, reduction, etc.) within the special case of psychology. Or, philosophy can be the source of proposals for improving psychology. Vice versa, the findings of psychology can be used to criticize philosophical theories and suggest ways to resolve some traditional philosophical questions about the mind, such as the nature of mental representation, perception, emotion, memory, consciousness and free will.

The chapters in this book reflect these different forms of interaction in an effort to clarify issues and debates concerning some traditional cognitive capacities. The result is a philosophically and scientifically up-to-date collection of cartographies of the mind.