Introduction : can cognitive science locate and provide a correct account of the mind's center? : progress toward the literal | p. 3 |
Where are we at present, and how did we get there? | |
Introduction | p. 15 |
The relevance of the philosophy of psychology to a science of psychology | p. 20 |
Mind as a scientific object : a historical-philosophical exploration | p. 35 |
The emergence of minds in space and time | p. 79 |
Is the mind a scientific object of study? : lessons from history | p. 101 |
Is the study of mind continuous with the rest of science? | |
Introduction | p. 121 |
Psychology as engineering | p. 126 |
Epistemic dualism | p. 144 |
Mind, brain, and culture | p. 160 |
Chalmer's naturalistic dualism : the irrelevance of the mind-body problem to the scientific study of consciousness | p. 165 |
Emergence and efficacy | p. 176 |
Eliminative materialism : sound or mistaken? | |
Introduction | p. 193 |
A particularly compelling refutation of eliminative materialism | p. 197 |
Commonsense refutations of eliminativism | p. 206 |
What does it take to be a true believer? : against the opulent ideology of eliminative materialism | p. 211 |
Connectionism and the propositional attitudes | p. 225 |
Is "mind" just another name for the brain and what the brain does? | |
Introduction | p. 247 |
All in the interest of time : on the problem of speed and cognition | p. 251 |
Can there be a cognitive neuroscience of central cognitive systems? | p. 265 |
The cognitive neuroscience laboratory : a framework for the science of mind | p. 283 |
Gall's legacy revisited : decomposition and localization in cognitive neuroscience | p. 293 |
Does evolution provide a key to the scientific study of mind? | |
Introduction | p. 319 |
The detachment of thought | p. 323 |
The mind as an object of scientific study | p. 342 |
The significance of ape language research | p. 367 |
I object : mind and brain as Darwinian things | p. 381 |
Is the mind a cultural entity? | |
Introduction | p. 399 |
Ignace Meyerson and cultural psychology | p. 402 |
Strong culturalism | p. 413 |
The text of the mind | p. 432 |
Rationality : cultural or natural? | |
Introduction | p. 453 |
Beyond the mind-body problem | p. 457 |
Workshop rationality, dogmatisms, and models of the mind | p. 471 |
Is cognitive development equivalent to scientific development? | p. 487 |
Mind, brain, and the upper Paleolithic | p. 499 |
Afterword : between brain and culture - the diversity of mind | p. 511 |
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The Mind as a Scientific Object Between Brain and Culture
by Erneling, Christina E.; Johnson, David M.-
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