The Mind As a Scientific Object: Between Brain and Culture

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Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 13
Introduction: Can Cognitive Science Locate and Provide a Correct Account of the Mind’s Center? Progress Toward the Literal......Page 19
I: Where Are We at Present, and How Did We Get There?......Page 29
Introduction......Page 31
1 The Relevance of the Philosophy of Psychology to a Science of Psychology......Page 36
2 Mind as a Scientific Object: A Historical-Philosophical Exploration......Page 51
3 The Emergence of Minds in Space and Time......Page 95
4 Is the Mind a Scientific Object of Study? Lessons from History......Page 117
II: Is the Study of Mind Continuous with the Rest of Science?......Page 135
Introduction......Page 137
5 Psychology as Engineering......Page 142
6 Epistemic Dualism......Page 160
7 Mind, Brain, and Culture......Page 176
8 Chalmers’s Naturalistic Dualism: The Irrelevance of the Mind-Body Problem to the Scientific Study of Consciousness......Page 181
9 Emergence and Efficacy......Page 192
III: Eliminative Materialism: Sound or Mistaken?......Page 207
Introduction......Page 209
10 A Particularly Compelling Refutation of Eliminative Materialism......Page 213
11 Commonsense Refutations of Eliminativism......Page 222
12 What Does It Take to Be a True Believer? Against the Opulent Ideology of Eliminative Materialism......Page 227
13 Connectionism and the Propositional Attitudes......Page 241
IV: Is “Mind” Just Another Name for the Brain and What the Brain Does?......Page 261
Introduction......Page 263
14 All in the Interest of Time: On the Problem of Speed and Cognition......Page 267
15 Can There Be a Cognitive Neuroscience of Central Cognitive Systems?......Page 281
16 The Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory: A Framework for the Science of Mind......Page 299
17 Gall’s Legacy Revisited: Decomposition and Localization in Cognitive Neuroscience......Page 309
V: Does Evolution Provide a Key to the Scientific Study of Mind?......Page 333
Introduction......Page 335
18 The Detachment of Thought......Page 339
19 The Mind as an Object of Scientific Study......Page 358
20 The Significance of Ape Language Research......Page 383
21 I Object: Mind and Brain as Darwinian Things......Page 397
VI: Is the Mind a Cultural Entity?......Page 413
Introduction......Page 415
22 Ignace Meyerson and Cultural Psychology......Page 418
23 Strong Culturalism......Page 429
24 The Text of the Mind......Page 448
VII: Rationality: Cultural or Natural?......Page 467
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25 Beyond the Mind-Body Problem......Page 473
26 Workshop Rationality, Dogmatism, and Models of the Mind......Page 487
27 Is Cognitive Development Equivalent to Scientific Development?......Page 503
28 Mind, Brain, and the Upper Paleolithic......Page 515
29 Afterword: Between Brain and Culture—The Diversity of Mind......Page 527
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