Theoretical issues in psychology: an introduction /

Bem, Sacha

Theoretical issues in psychology: an introduction / Sacha Bem, Huib Looren de Jong - 3rd ed. - Los Angeles: Sage, 2013. - xi, 400 p. PB

Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-390) and indexes.

Chapter 1. Science : why, and how? Some basic ideas in scientific method --
chapter 2. Kind of explanations : laws, interpretations and functions --
chapter 3. Philosophy of science (1) : logical positivism and its failure --
chapter 4. Philosophy of science (2) : criticism and alternatives to positivism --
chapter 5. Sociology and psychology of science --
chapter 6. Introducing philosophy of mind, brain and cognition --
chapter 7. Modern approaches to mind (1) : the language-based view : functionalism and the computational theory of mind --
chapter 8. Modern approaches to mind (2) : the brain-based view : neurophilosophy, connectionism and dynamicism --
chapter 9. the extended mind : biology, body, and environment --
chapter 10. consciousness and free will.

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Psychology.
Philosophy of mind.

150.1 / BEM/T
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