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Author Botterill, George.

Title The philosophy of psychology / George Botterill and Peter Carruthers
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: some background -- Folk-psychological commitments -- Modularity and nativism -- Mind-reading -- Reasoning and irrationality -- Content for psychology -- Content naturalised -- Forms of representation -- Consciousness: the final frontier?
Summary This book presents an original and accessible analysis of the relationship between common-sense, or 'folk', psychology and contemporary scientific psychology, focussing on the ways in which cognitive science presents a challenge to our common-sense self image. It is designed as a textbook for upper-level undergraduate and beginning postgraduate students in philosophy and cognitive science. As a text that not only surveys but advances the debates on the topics discussed, it will also be of interest to researchers working in these areas
Analysis Psychology
Philosophy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-289) and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Psychology -- Philosophy.
Cognition.
Philosophy.
Psychological Theory
Cognition
Cognitive Science
Philosophy
cognition.
philosophy.
PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
Philosophy
Cognition
Psychology -- Philosophy
Psychologie
Philosophie
Psychologie.
Filosofische aspecten.
Psychologie et philosophie.
Cognition.
Form Electronic book
Author Carruthers, Peter, 1952-
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