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Psychology’s aim is to explain mental phenomena by describing the underlying processes, systems, and mechanisms that give rise to them. These hidden causal levers underlie all of our mental feats, including our richest conscious perceptions, our most subtle chains of reasoning, and our widest-ranging plans and actions.
This course will survey philosophical issues particular to the scientific study of the mind, with a special focus on the methodology and explanatory practices of psychology. We will cover questions such as: . o Can subjective reports count as evidence? o Is ‘unconscious inference’ a coherent concept? o What can evolution tell us about our minds?
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May 14, 2021 · This textbook provides an engrossing overview of contemporary debates in the philosophy of psychology, exploring the ways in which the interaction and collaboration between psychologists...
The philosophy of psychology is concerned with mind and cognition. When psychology cut itself loose institutionally and professionally from philosophy in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries, it was the discipline that predominantly studied mind and cognition. This has changed over the last 30 years.
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The argu-ment presented is that psychology has traditionally spanned two separate but intimately related problems: (a) the problem of animal behavior and (b) the problem of human behavior....
Define psychology. Describe the influence that philosophy, biology, and physiology had on the beginnings of psychology as a science. Compare the two early scientific approaches in psychology: structuralism and functionalism. Describe the focus of each of the six contemporary approaches to psychology.
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• Psychology can be defined as the scientific study of the mind and behaviour. • Psychology is more than a science of behaviour; it is a science of the mind and the processes that shape our behaviour.
