Cartesian Psychology and Physical Minds: Individualism and the Science of the Mind

ISBN: 9780521597340 出版年：1995 页码：290 Robert Andrew Wilson Cambridge University Press

Preface 1. Introduction: what is individualism in psychology? Part I. On Arguments for Individualism: 2. An a priori argument: the argument from causal powers 3. An Empirical Argument: The Computational Argument 4. Methodological arguments Part II. Psychological Explanation and Mental Causation: 5. Rethinking the Role of Causal Powers in Taxonomy and Explanation 6. Making sense of mental causation 7. The Place of Folk Psychology: Computationalism, Individualism and Narrow Content Part III. The Case Against Individualism: 8. The Causal Depth and Theoretical appropriateness of wide psychology 9. Individualistic visions of psychology: prospects and problems 10. Conclusion: Cartesian psychology and the science of the mind References Index.