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Author Coulter, Jeff.

Title Brain, mind, and human behavior in contemporary cognitive science : critical assessments of the philosophy of psychology / Jeff Coulter and Wes Sharrock ; with a foreword by P.M.S. Hacker
Published Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 2007

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Description xx, 230 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Neural metaphysics -- Technical and ordinary language -- The Cartesian heritage and neuroscience -- Problems with "information" -- The physical and "symbolic" environments -- The storage conception of memory -- Neuralizing "voluntariness" -- Seeing colors -- Materialist conceptions of mind : a reappraisal -- The origins of materialism in the philosophy of mind -- Problems of the materialist theory of mind -- The "mental" and the "physical" -- Neural causation and freedom of action -- The problem of determinism -- Reconceiving Kornhuber-Libet -- "Folk psychology" and freedom -- Causes and rules -- On choosing -- Consciousness : the last mystery -- Human beings and "physical systems" -- "In the mind" does not signify : in psychology's remit -- Phenomenology of nothing -- No explanatory gap to bridge -- On "qualia" and zombies -- Memory : explaining capacities versus -- Explaining performances -- Dissolving the "projection problem" -- Sources of the problem -- Fodor's problems -- Can the problem be dissolved? -- Muddles about learning -- Fetishising "syntax" -- Intentional states and the "theory of mind" theory -- Extended mind
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Psychology -- Philosophy.
Cognitive science.
Neurosciences.
Philosophy of mind.
Author Sharrock, W. W. (Wes W.)
LC no. 2007029273
ISBN 9780773453159
0773453156