02669cam a2200361 i 4500 30031 30031 18290958 20190128121028.0 140905s2015 enka b 001 0 eng 2014034058 9780521519298 (hardback) 9780521740203 (paperback) DLC eng DLC rda DLC pcc BF38 .W656 2015 150.1 23 PHI015000 bisacsh Weiskopf, Daniel A., 1973- An introduction to the philosophy of psychology / Daniel A. Weiskopf and Fred Adams. xiv, 316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Cambridge introductions to philosophy Includes bibliographical references (pagesw 275-304) and index. "Our topic here is psychology, the self-styled science of the mind. 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. While the phenomena of mind are intimately related to events occurring in the brain, these psychological explanations are, we will argue, distinct and autonomous from explanations in terms of neural processes and mechanisms. According to the view we present here, psychology and neuroscience are different enterprises. We certainly wouldn't claim that our ever-increasing understanding of how the brain works has nothing to say to psychology: on the contrary, they are complimentary, since neuroscience can provide invaluable input to psychological theorizing (and vice versa, a point that we think is not stressed often enough). But our task will be to give a thorough account of the scope, methods, content, and prospects for a distinctive science of our mental lives"-- Psychology Philosophy. PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body. bisacsh Adams, Frederick. Cover image http://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/40203/cover/9780521740203.jpg 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BOOKS BF38 .W656 2015 0 0 lcc 0 0 MUC MUC GEN 2019-01-28 Donation (EYS) 4588.00 0 BF38 .W656 2015 38518 2019-01-28 2019-01-28 BOOKS