Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science - Handbook of the Philosophy of Science

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: General Prface (Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard and John Woods) Introduction to teh Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science(Paul Thagard) List of ContributorsRepresentation (Eric Dietrich) Mechanisms and Psychological Explanation (Cory Wright and William Bechtel) Realization: Metaphysical and Scientific Perspectives (Robert A. Wilson and Carl F. Craver) Reduction: Models of Cross-Scientific Relations (Robert N. McCauley) Perception Preattentive and Phenomenal (Austen Clark) Consciousness: Phenomenal Consciousness, Access Consciousness and Scientific Practice (Uriah Kriegel) On Restricting the Evidence Base for Linguistics (Corrine Iten, Robert Stainton and Catherine Wearing) Emotion: Competing Theories and Philosopical Issues (Jesse J. Prinz) Simulation (Alvin Goldman and Kelby Mason) The Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience (Valerie Gray Hardcastle) Computational Neuroscience (Chris Eliasmith) Psychopathology: Minding Mental Illness (George Graham and G. Lynn Stephens) The Adaptive Programme of Evolutionary Psychology (Robert C. Richardson) Situated Cognition (Miriam Solomon) Artificial Intelligence: History, Foundations, and Philosophical Issues (B. Jack Copeland and Diane Proudfoot) Index

Contributor Bio:  Thagard, Paul Paul Thagard is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of " The Cognitive Science of Science" (MIT Press, 2012) and many other books.