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Author Hebb, Donald O

Title Essays on Mind
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (172 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1. Mind as a Biological Problem; The Objections to Identity Theory; Nonsense about Behaviorism; Psychology and Humanism; Science and Common Sense; 2. Self-Knowledge and the Self; Introspection: Historical Metaphor?; The Paradoxical Unconscious; The Special Case of Imagery and Hallucination; The Idea of the Self; Primary Knowledge of Mind; 3. Biological Threads in the Philosophic Fabric; Neurological Ideas in Psychology; Decartes and the Imprisoned Knower; Parallelism, Epiphenomenalism, Interactionism
Neurologizing: Useful Tool but Handle with Care4. The Evolution of Mind and Behavior; The Neural Basis of Development; The Evidence of Existing Behavior; Emotions and Motivations; Altruism; 5. Heredity, the IQ, and Attendant Confusions; The Biologist's Fallacy; The IQ and Its Values; What a High Heritability Does Not Mean; 6. A Physiological Theory; The Problem of Perception; Devising an Improbable Theory; Experimental Tests: The Early Environment; The Adult Environment; 7. Perception and Cognitive Development; The Stabilized-Image Experiments; Cognitive Association and Inhibition
Cognitive DevelopmentPerception in the Development of Language; 8. The Structure of Thought; The Direction of Thought; Content and Formation of Ideas; Relating Gestalt Perceptual Phenomena to Scientific Thought; The Theory of Hypnosis; 9. Scientific Law in Human Thought; Scientific Law and Prediction; Determinism: Logically Inescapable; Free Will: A Biological Phenomenon; Extrasensory Perception: A Problem; 10. A World of Thought; The Large and the Small; Concern with the Nonexistent; Law in Another Aspect; References; Author Index; Subject Index
Summary Donald Olding Hebb, referred to by American Psychologist as one of ""the 20th century's most eminent and influential theorists in the realm of brain function and behavior, "" contributes greatly to the understanding of mind and thought in Essays on Mind. His objective was to learn about thought which he considered ""the central problem of psychology -- but also, not less important, to learn how to think clearly about thought, which is philosophy."" The volume is written for advanced undergraduates, graduates, professionals, and lay people interested in or studying the mind. Hebb
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ISBN 9781317770336
1317770331