The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology

Edited by John Symons, Paco Calvo

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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology is an invaluable guide and major reference source to the major topics, problems, concepts and debates in philosophy of psychology and is the first companion of its kind. A team of renowned international contributors provide forty-two chapters organised into six clear parts:

The Companion covers key topics such as the origins of experimental psychology; folk psychology; behaviorism and functionalism; philosophy, psychology and neuroscience; the language of thought, modularity, nativism and representational theories of mind; consciousness and the senses; personal identity; the philosophy of psychopathology and dreams, emotion and temporality.

Essential reading for all students of philosophy of mind, science and psychology, The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology will also be of interest to anyone studying psychology and its related disciplines.

Reviews

'This work should serve as the standard reference for those interested in gaining a reliable overview of the burgeoning field of philosophical psychology. Summing Up: Essential.' - Choice

‘If someone were to ask me to select a book to be placed in a cornerstone or time capsule to be opened 100 years hence, this book would be on my short list, for it will offer the intellectual historian working in 2110 a clear view of how the mind of our time is understood.’ - Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books

'The essays here, by outstanding scholars in philosophy of psychology, are exemplary for their theoretical sophistication, informative explanations of empirical work, and balanced overviews of relevant research areas. Nobody interested in philosophy of psychology will want to be without this excellent volume.' - David Rosenthal, City University, New York, USA

'This collection provides an exceptionally wide-ranging review of recent advances and theoretical disputes in psychology, and closely related issues in evolutionary biology and neuroscience. It reflects philosophical sophistication, scientific expertise, and historical sensitivity.’ – Margaret Boden, University of Sussex, UK

‘This is a highly useful and timely collection of essays by philosophers who consider advances in cognitive neuroscience and their relevance for the philosophy of mind. This is a compendium that will help connect the two cultures and I enthusiastically endorse this volume to both communities.’ - Howard Eichenbaum, Boston University, USA

‘An excellent collection of new essays, many by major contributors to the literature. No library or individual interested in current work in the philosophy of psychology should wish to be without it.’ - George Graham, Georgia State University, USA

Table of Contents

Part 1: Historical Background to the Philosophy of Psychology 1. Rationalist Roots of Modern Psychology 2. Empiricist Roots of Modern Psychology 3. Early Experimental Psychology 4. Freud and the Unconscious 5. The Early History of the quale and its Relation to the Senses 6. Behaviourism 7. Cognitivism Part 2: Psychological Explanation 8. What is Psychological Explanation? 9. Is Folk Psychology a Theory? 10. Computational Functionalism 11. The Interface Between Psychology and Neuroscience 12. Connectionism 13. Embodied Cognition and the Extended Mind 14. Conceptual Problems in Statistics, Testing and Experimentation Part 3: Cognition and Representation 15. Problems of Representation 1: Nature and Role 16. Problems of Representation 2: Naturalizing Content 17. The Language of Thought 18. Modularity 19. Nativism 20. Memory 21. Interactivism 22. The Propositional Imagination Part 4: The Biological Basis of Psychology 23. Representation and the Brain 24. Levels of Mechanisms: A Field Guide to the Hierarchical Structure of the World 25. Cellular and Subcellular Neuroscience 26. Evolutionary Models in Psychology 27. Development and Learning 28. Understanding Embodied Cognition through Dynamical Systems Thinking Part 5: Perceptual Experience 29. Consciousness 30. Attention 31. Introspection 32. Dreaming 33. Emotion 34. Vision 35. Color 36. Audition 37. The Temporal Content of Perceptual Experience Part 6: Personhood 38. Action and Mind 39. Moral Judgment 40. Personal Identity 41. The Name and Nature of Confabulation 42. Buddhist Persons and Eudaimonia

About the Author(s)

John Symons is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of Texas, El Paso

Paco Calvo is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Murcia, Spain. He is co-editor (with Toni Gomila) of The Handbook of Cognitive Science: An Embodied Approach (2008).