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Klappentext Are all cognitive sciences equal? The contributors of this book argue that the answer is no, because only neurophysiology and cultural psychology are suited to account for the mind's ontology. The papers collected here have been chosen to clarify these alternatives. In particular, because other books have emphasized the neuroscience alternative, this book highlights the cultural solution. Zusammenfassung What holds together the various fields, which - considered together - are supposed to constitute the general intellectual discipline that people now call cognitive science? This book argues that all cognitive sciences are not equal, and that rather only neurophysiology and cultural psychology are suited to account for the mind's ontology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: can cognitive science locate and provide a correct account of the mind's center? Progress toward the literal Where are we at present, and how did we get there? 1: Rom Harre: The relevance of the philosophy of psychology to a science of psychology 2: Thomas Leahey: Mind as scientific object: an historical, philosophical exploration 3: Jagdish Hattiangadi: The emergence of minds in space and time 4: Otniel E. Dror: Is the mind a scientific object of study?: lessons from history Is the study of mind continuous with the rest of science? 5: Thomas Leahey: Psychology as engineering 6: Gunther Stent: Epistemic dualism 7: David Olson: Mind, brain, and culture 8: Don Ross: Chalmers' naturalistic dualism: the irrelevance of the mind-body problem to the scientific study of consciousness 9: William Seager: Emergence and efficacy Eliminative materialism: sound or mistaken? 10: William Lycan: A particularly compelling refutation of eliminative materialism 11: Ausonio Marras: Common-sense refutations of eliminativism 12: David Henderson and Terrance Horgan: What does it take to be a true believer?: against the opulent ideology of eliminative materialism 13: Barbara Von Eckhardt: Connectionism and the propositional attitudes Is "mind" just another name for the brain and what the brain does? 14: Martin Ingvar: All in the interest of time-on the problem of speed and cognition 15: Vinod Goel: Can there be a cognitive neuroscience of central cognitive systems? 16: Itiel Dror and Robin Thomas: The cognitive neuroscience laboratory: a framework for the science of mind 17: Tadeusz Zadwidski and William Bechtel: Gall's legacy revisited: decomposition and localization in cognitive neuroscience Does evolution provide a key to the scientific study of mind? 18: Peter Gardenfors: The detachment of thought 19: Jagdish Hattiangadi: The mind as an object of scientific study 20: Stuart Shanker and Talbot J. Taylor: The significance of ape language research 21: Charles Lumsden: I object: mind and brain as Darwinian things Is the mind a cultural entity? 22: Jerome Bruner: Ignace Meyerson and cultural psychology 23: David Bakhurst: Strong culturalism 24: Jens Brockmeier: The text of the mind Rationality: cultural or natural? 25: Timothy van Gelder: Beyond the mind-body problem 26: Ian Jarvie: Workshop rationality, dogmatism and models of the mind 27: Christina E. Erneling: Is cognitive development equivalent to scientific development? 28: David Martel Johnson: Mind, brain, and the upper paleolithic Afterword: between brain and culture - the diversity of mind ...
