Principles of Cognition, Language and Action Essays on the Foundations of a Science of Psychology
This book addresses a growing concern as to why Psychology, now more than a hundred years after becoming an independent research area, does not yet meet the basic requirements of a scientific discipline on a par with other sciences such as physics and biology. These requirements include: agree ment...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2000, 2000
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2000 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I: The Development of a Science of Psychology
- 1 Introduction to Assumptions and Arguments
- 2 Alternative Assumptions and Principles
- 3 Problems of Explanations and Theories of Visual Perception
- 4 Consequences for Perception Psychology and Epistemology
- II: The Relation Between Language, Cognition and Reality
- 5 The Relation Between Language and Reality
- 6 Language, Concepts and Reality
- 7 Situations, Action and Knowledge
- 8 Scientific and Other Descriptions of Reality
- 9 Physicalism and Psychology
- 10 Context, Content and Reference- the Case for Beliefs and Intentionality
- 11 Propositions about Real as Opposed to Fictitious Things
- 12 Why There Still Cannot be a Causal Theory of Content
- 13 The Relation Between Language, Cognition and Reality I
- 14 The Relation Between Language, Cognition and Reality II
- 15 The Relation Between Language, Cognition and Reality III
- III: Identity
- 16 Identity and Identification - Same and Different
- IV: Persons
- 17 Some Consequences of Epistemological Idealism
- 18 Wittgenstein’s Theories of Language
- 19 The External World and the Internal
- 20 The Inter-Subjectivity of Knowledge and Language
- 21 The Conditions for People to be and Function as Persons: Summary and Consequences
- References