Theoretical issues in psychology: an introduction /
Sacha Bem, Huib Looren de Jong
- 3rd ed.
- Los Angeles: Sage, 2013.
- xi, 400 p. PB
Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-390) and indexes.
Chapter 1. Science : why, and how? Some basic ideas in scientific method -- chapter 2. Kind of explanations : laws, interpretations and functions -- chapter 3. Philosophy of science (1) : logical positivism and its failure -- chapter 4. Philosophy of science (2) : criticism and alternatives to positivism -- chapter 5. Sociology and psychology of science -- chapter 6. Introducing philosophy of mind, brain and cognition -- chapter 7. Modern approaches to mind (1) : the language-based view : functionalism and the computational theory of mind -- chapter 8. Modern approaches to mind (2) : the brain-based view : neurophilosophy, connectionism and dynamicism -- chapter 9. the extended mind : biology, body, and environment -- chapter 10. consciousness and free will.