Laws and the mind -- Laws, vindication, and ontology -- The received solution in computational psychology -- Cartwritght, universal laws, and fundamentalism -- Empiricism and laws -- Laws and idealization -- Laws and freedom -- Freedom, determinism, and two accounts of laws -- Three appeals and a Kantian conclusion -- Psychophysical laws and models of early vision -- Modeling cortical dynamics -- Belief-desire psychologies
Summary
In this work, Steven Horst addresses the apparent dissonance between the picture of the natural world that arises from the sciences and our understanding of ourselves as agents who think and act
Analysis
PHILOSOPHY/General
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-274) and index
