The Mind as a Scientific Object - Between brain and culture (Hardcover)

What holds together the various fields that are supposed to consititute the general intellectual discipline that people now call cognitive science? In this book, Erneling and Johnson identify two problems with defining this discipline. First, some theorists identify the common subject matter as the mind, but scientists and philosophers have not been able to agree on any single, satisfactory answer to the question of what the mind is. Second, those who speculate about the general characteristics that belong to cognitive science tend to assume that all the particular fields falling under the rubric--psychology, linguistics, biology, and son on--are of roughly equal value in their ability to shed light on the nature of mind. This book argues that all the cognitive science disciplines are not equally able to provide answers to ontological questions about the mind, but rather that only neurophysiology and cultural psychology are suited to answer these questions. However, since the cultural account of mind has long been ignored in favor of the neurophysiological account, Erneling and Johnson bring together contributions that focus especially on different versions of the cultural account of the mind.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2005
First published:	2005
Editors:	Christina E. Erneling (Associate Professor of Communication) • David Martel Johnson (Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science)
Dimensions:	244 x 164 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	562
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-513932-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Cognitive theory Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
LSN:	0-19-513932-1
Barcode:	9780195139327

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