The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology, Second Edition is an invaluable guide and major reference source to the key topics, problems, concepts, and debates in philosophy of psychology and is the first companion of its kind. A team of renowned international contributors provide forty-eight chapters, organized into six clear parts: - Historical background to philosophy of psychology - Psychological explanation - Cognition and representation - The biological basis of psychology - Perceptual experience - Personhood. The Companion covers key topics, such as the origins of experimental psychology; folk psychology; behaviorism and functionalism; philosophy, psychology and neuroscience; the language of thought, modularity, nativism, and representational theories of mind; consciousness and the senses; dreams, emotion, and temporality; personal identity; and the philosophy of psychopathology. For the second edition, six new chapters have been added to address the following important topics: belief and representation in nonhuman animals; prediction error minimization; contemporary neuroscience; plant neurobiology; epistemic judgment; and group cognition. Essential reading for all students of philosophy of mind, science, and psychology, The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology will also be of interest to anyone studying psychology and its related disciplines.

Sarah Robins is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kansas, USA. John Symons is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kansas, USA. Paco Calvo is Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Murcia, Spain, and Principal Investigator of the Minimal Intelligence Lab (MINT Lab).

Introduction to the Second Edition Sarah Robins, John Symons, and Paco Calvo Part 1: Historical background to the philosophy of psychology 1. Rationalist Roots of Modern Psychology Gary Hatfield 2. Empiricist Roots of Modern Psychology Raymond Martin 3. Early Experimental Psychology Alan Kim 4. Freud and the Unconscious Edward Erwin 5. The Early History of the quale and its Relation to the Senses Brian L. Keeley 6. Behaviourism David Braddon-Mitchell 7. Cognitivism Alan Garnham Part 2: Psychological Explanation 8. What is Psychological Explanation? William Bechtel and Cory D Wright 9. Is Folk Psychology a Theory? Ian Ravenscroft 10. Computational Functionalism Thomas W. Polger 11. The Interface between Psychology and Neuroscience Valerie Gray Hardcastle 12. Connectionism Amanda J. C. Sharkey and Noel Sharkey 13. Embodied Cognition and the Extended Mind Fred Adams and Ken Aizawa 14. Conceptual Problems in Statistics, Testing and Experimentation David Danks and Frederick Eberhardt Part 3: Cognition and Representation 15. Problems of representation I: nature and role Dan Ryder 16. Problems of representation II: naturalizing content Dan Ryder 17. The language of thought Susan Schneider 18. Modularity Verena Gottschling 19. Nativism Richard Samuels 20. Memory Mark Rowlands 21. Interactivism Mark H. Bickhard 22. The propositional imagination Shaun Nichols 23. Belief and Representation in nonhuman animals Sarah Beth Lesson, Brandon Tinklenberg, and Kristin Andrews 24. Representation in the Prediction Error Minimzation Framework Alex Kiefer and Jakob Hohwy Part 4: The Biological Basis of Psychology 25. Representation and the brain Arthur B. Markman 26. Levels of mechanisms: a field guide to the hierarchical structure of the world Carl F. Craver 27. Cellular and subcellular neuroscience John Bickle 28. Networks and Dynamics: 21st Century Neuroscience William Bechtel 29. Evolutionary models in psychology Michael Wheeler 30. Development and Learning Aarre Laakso 31. Understanding embodied cognition through dynamical systems thinking Gregor Schöner and Hendrix Reimann 32. The Philosophy of Plant Neurobiology Manuel Heras-Escribano and Paco Calvo Part 5: Perceptual Experience 33. Consciousness Tim Bayne 34. Attention Christopher Mole 35. Introspection Jordi Fernández 36. Dreaming John Sutton 37. Emotion Anthony P. Atkinson 38. Vision Valtteri Arstila 39. Color Johnathan Cohen 40. Audition Casey O'Callaghan 41. The temporal content of perceptual experience Rick Grush Part 6: Personhood 42. Action and Mind Alfred R. Mele 43. Moral Judgment Jennifer Nado, Daniel Kelly, and Stephen Stich 44. Personal Identity Marya Schechtman 45. The name and nature of confabulation William Hirstein 46. Buddhist persons and eudaimonia Owen Flanagan 47. The Psychology of Epistemic Judgment Jennifer Nagel and Jessica Wright 48. Group Cognition Deborah Tollefsen and Kevin Ryan. Index