Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-8ctnn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T18:10:08.723Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Scope of Psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2022

Keith Butler
Keith Butler*
Affiliation:
Washington University
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Psychology is a scientific discipline whose universe of discourse is the mind. What could be so controversial about that? Plenty; and (almost) all of the controversy involves questions about the scope of mind. The traditional view on this matter is most closely associated with Descartes. Though Descartes supposed that the mind is essentially nonmaterial, this dualism is not a part of the legacy Descartes left to the modern student of mind. What modern cognitive science has inherited from Descartes is the view that the mind is a private place, separated (in a number of respects) from the body and the environment that lies outside the physical boundries on an individual. There is, however, a rising tide within the philosophy of psychology that seeks to push the boundries of the mind outside the skin (or at least the cranium).

Type
Part XI. Philosophy of Psychology and Perception
Information
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association , Volume 1994 , Issue 1: Volume One: Contributed Papers 1994 , 1994 , pp. 428 - 436
Copyright
Copyright © 1994 by the Philosophy of Science Association

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Brooks, R. (1991), “Intelligence Without Representation”, Artificial Intelligence 47: 139–159.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Butler, K. (1992), “The Physiology of Desire”, Journal of Mind and Behavior 13: 69–88.Google Scholar
Churchland, P. (1981), “Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes”, Journal of Philosophy 78: 67–90.Google Scholar
Dretske, F. (1988), Explaining Behavior. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar
Dreyfus, H. (1972, 1979, 1992), What Computers Can't Do. New York, NY: Harper and Row (first two editions only). What Computers Still Can't Do. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (third edition).Google Scholar
Ghez, C. (1985), “Voluntary Movement”, in Kandel, E. and Schwartz, J., (eds.), Principles of Neural Science. New York, NY: Elsevier, pp. 487–500.Google Scholar
Ghez, C. and Fahn, S. (1985) “The Cerebellum”, in Kandel, E. and Schwartz, J., (eds.), Principles of Neural Science. New York, NY: Elsevier, pp. 487–500.Google Scholar
Gibson, J. (1979), The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.Google Scholar
Haugeland, J. (1993), “Mind Embodied and Embedded”, Proceedings of Mind and Cognition: An International Symposium, May 28-30, 1993. Taipei, Taiwan: Academia Sinica.Google Scholar
Hornsby, J. (1986), “Physicalist Thinking and Conceptions of Behavior”, in Pettit, P. and McDowell, J. (eds.), Subject, Thought, and Context. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 95–115.Google Scholar
Kirsh, D. (1991), ‘Today the Earwig, Tomorrow Man?’, Artificial Intelligence 47: 161–184.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Marr, D. (1982), Vision. San Francisco, CA: Freeman.Google Scholar
Merton, P. (1973), “How Do We Control the Contractions of Our Muscles?”, Scientific American, May: 30-37.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Simon, H. (1969, 1982), The Sciences of the Artificial. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar
van Gelder, T. (1993), “The Distinction Between Mind and Cognition”, Proceedings of Mind and Cognition: An International Symposium, May 28-30, 1993. Taipei, Taiwan: Academia Sinica.Google Scholar