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Toward A New Behaviorism - The Case Against Perceptual Reductionism (Hardcover)
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Toward A New Behaviorism - The Case Against Perceptual Reductionism (Hardcover)
Series: Scientific Psychology Series
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This volume examines the scientific basis of reductionist
approaches to understanding visual perception. The author makes the
provocative argument that contemporary neuroscience and cognitive
science have gone off on a wild-goose chase in the search for
reductionist explanations of perceptual phenomena. This book
considers some specific and general examples of this misdirection
and suggests an alternative future course for science. It reviews
the successes and failures of the sciences' efforts to explain
perceptual and other mental functions in the terms of either
internal cognitive mechanisms, formal models, or the neural
structures from which the brain--the organ of the mind--is
constructed.
Although this is an iconoclastic and minority view, the book shows
how many contemporary perceptual scientists have qualified their
thinking with regard to what their data and theories mean even
while generally accepting the empirical findings. It is, without
question, an attempted refutation of some of the primary
assumptions of contemporary theory. Summing up the author's
convictions concerning some of the most important questions of
human nature, this book is a statement of a point of view that has
provided a framework for his personal answers to some of these
important questions of human history.
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