The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology (Routledge Philosophy Companions)

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology is an invaluable guide and major reference source to the major topics, problems, concepts and debates in philosophy of psychology and is the first companion of its kind. A team of renowned international contributors provide forty-two chapters organised into six clear parts: I. Historical background to the philosophy of psychologyII. Psychological explanationIII. Cognition and representationIV. The biological basis of psychologyV. Perceptual experienceVI. Personhood The Companion covers key topics such as the origins of experimental psychology; folk psychology; behaviorism and functionalism; philosophy, psychology and neuroscience; the language of thought, modularity, nativism and representational theories of mind; consciousness and the senses; personal identity; the philosophy of psychopathology and dreams, emotion and temporality. Essential reading for all students of philosophy of mind, science and psychology, The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology will also be of interest to anyone studying psychology and its related disciplines. Routledge 9780415396325 Cover 1 THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY 4 CONTENTS 6 CONTRIBUTORS 10 INTRODUCTION: wHAT HAS PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY BECOME? 20 Part I Historical background to the philosophy of psychology 24 1 Rationalist roots of modern psychology 26 2 Empiricist roots of modern psychology 44 3 Early experimental psychology 64 4 Freud and the unconscious 82 5 The early history of the quale and its relation to the senses 94 6 Behaviourism 113 7 Cognitivism 122 Part II Psychological explanation 134 8 What is psychological explanation? 136 9 Is folk psychology a theory? 154 10 Computational functionalism 171 11 The interface between psychology and neuroscience 187 12 Connectionism 203 13 Embodied cognition and the extended mind 216 14 Conceptual problems in statistics, testing and experimentation 237 Part III Cognition and representation 254 15 Problems of representation I: nature and role 256 16 Problems of representation II: naturalizing content 274 17 The language of thought 303 18 Modularity 319 19 Nativism 345 20 Memory 359 21 Interactivism 369 22 The propositional imagination 383 Part IV The biological basis of psychology 394 23 Representation and the brain 396 24 Levels of mechanisms: a field guide to the hierarchical structure of the world 410 25 Cellular and subcellular neuroscience 423 26 Evolutionary models in psychology 439 27 Development and learning 453 28 Understanding embodied cognition through dynamical systems thinking 473 Part V Perceptualexperience 498 29 Consciousness 500 30 Attention 518 31 Introspection 532 32 Dreaming 545 33 Emotion 566 34 Vision 579 35 Color 591 36 Audition 602 37 The temporal content of perceptual experience 615 Part VI Personhood 630 38 Action and mind 632 39 Moral judgment 644 40 Personal identity 657 41 The name and nature of confabulation 670 42 Buddhist persons and eudaimonia Buddha 682 Index 696 "The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology is an invaluable guide and major reference source to the major topics, problems, concepts and debates in philosophy of psychology and is the first companion of its kind. A team of renowned international contributors provide forty-two chapters organised into six clear parts." "Essential reading for all students of philosophy of mind, science, and psychology, The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology will also be of interest to anyone studying psychology and its related disciplines."--Jacket