Tracing the history of central concepts from the nineteenth century to the present, this study
surveys the significant contributions of philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and computer …

This book is a comprehensive development and defense of one of the guiding assumptions
of evolutionary psychology: that the human mind is composed of a large number of semi …

How can phenomenal consciousness exist as an integral part of a physical universe? How
can the technicolour phenomenology of our inner lives be created out of the complex neural …

We started planning this book in the summer of1990. At that time we were both working in
the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. Dianne Berry was a …

The Centered Mind offers a new view of the nature and causal determinants of both
reflective thinking and, more generally, the stream of consciousness. Peter Carruthers …

A traditional view of perception and action makestwo assumptions: that the causal flow
betweenperception and action is primarily linear or one-way, and that they are merely …

Connectionist approaches, Andy Clark argues, are driving cognitive science toward a
radical reconception of its explanatory endeavour. At the heart of this reconception lies a …

This philosophical treatise on the foundations of semantics is a systematic effort to clarify,
deepen and defend the classical doctrine that words are conventional signs of mental states …

During the past two decades, debates over the viability of commonsense psychology have
occupied center stage in both cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. A group of …

Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that
includes classic and contemporary readings from leading philosophers. Addressing in depth …