The Mind as a Scientific Object

Between brain and culture

Christina E. Erneling, David Martel Johnson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

562 Seiten

2005
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-513932-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

WHERE ARE WE AT PRESENT, AND HOW DID WE GET THERE?; IS THE STUDY OF MIND CONTINUOUS WITH THE REST OF SCIENCE?; ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM: SOUND OR MISTAKEN?; IS "MIND" JUST ANOTHER NAME FOR THE BRAIN AND WHAT THE BRAIN DOES?; DOES EVOLUTION PROVIDE A KEY TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF MIND?; IS THE MIND A CULTURAL ENTITY?; RATIONALITY: CULTURAL OR NATURAL?

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.2.2005
Zusatzinfo	numerous line drawings
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 241 mm
Gewicht	871 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10	0-19-513932-1 / 0195139321
ISBN-13	978-0-19-513932-7 / 9780195139327
Zustand	Neuware