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Principles of Cognition, Language and Action

Essays on the Foundations of a Science of Psychology

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  1. N. Praetorius

    1. University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. The Development of a Science of Psychology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction to assumptions and arguments

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      Pages 3-25

    3. Alternative assumptions and principles

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      Pages 27-44

    4. Problems of explanations and theories of visual perception

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      Pages 45-68

    5. Consequences for perception psychology and epistemology

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      Pages 69-88

  3. The Relation Between Language, Cognition and Reality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. The relation between language and reality

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      Pages 91-121

    3. Language, concepts and reality

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      Pages 123-154

    4. Situations, action and knowledge

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      Pages 155-164

    5. Scientific and other descriptions of reality

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      Pages 165-194

    6. Physicalism and Psychology

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      Pages 195-203

    7. Context, content And reference — the case for beliefs and intentionality

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      Pages 205-234

    8. Propositions about real as opposed to fictitious things

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      Pages 235-248

    9. Why there still cannot be a causal theory of content

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      Pages 249-281

    10. The relation between language, cognition and reality I

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      Pages 283-293

    11. The relation between language, cognition and reality II

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      Pages 295-310

    12. The relation between language, cognition and reality III

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      Pages 311-326

  4. Identity

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      Pages 327-327
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    2. Identity and identification — same and different

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      Pages 329-351
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About this book

This book addresses a growing concern as to why Psychology, now more than a hundred years after becoming an independent research area, does not yet meet the basic requirements of a scientific discipline on a par with other sciences such as physics and biology. These requirements include: agree­ ment on definition and delimitation of the range of features and properties of the phenomena or subject matter to be investigated; secondly, the development of concepts and methods which unambiguously specify the phenomena and systematic investigation of their features and properties. A third equally important requirement, implicit in the first two, is exclusion from enquiry of all other mattes with which the discipline is not concerned. To these requirements must then be added the development of basic assumptions about the nature of what is under investigation, and of principles to account for its properties and to serve as a guide as to what are relevant questions to ask and theories to develop about them.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    N. Praetorius

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Principles of Cognition, Language and Action

  • Book Subtitle: Essays on the Foundations of a Science of Psychology

  • Authors: N. Praetorius

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4036-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6230-2Published: 31 March 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6231-9Published: 31 March 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4036-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 492

  • Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Psychology

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