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Author Prætorius, Nini.

Title Principles of cognition, language and action : essays on the foundations for a science of psychology / by N. Praetorius
Published Dordrecht, The Netherlands ; Boston [Mass., U.S.] : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2000]
©2000

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Description xxi, 492 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. III. Identity. 16. Identity and Identification - Same and Different -- Pt. 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
Summary "The book exposes serious flaws in the reductionist assumptions about Mind and Matter of Naturalism and Constructivism, which underlie research and theorizing on cognition, language and action within current academic psychology. The author argues for alternative, radically different assumptions about the relation between the mental and material reality, which are not only tenable, but as a matter of principle must be taken for granted, and be the point of departure for all investigations into both reality and our cognition and description of it."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Psychology -- Philosophy.
LC no. 00027387
ISBN 0792362306 (cased)
0792362314 (paperback)