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How to build a theory in cognitive science

Title: How to build a theory in cognitive science / Valerie Gray Hardcastle.
Author: Hardcastle, Valerie Gray
Publication: Albany : State University of New York Press, [1996], ©1996.

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SUNY series in philosophy and biology

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SUNY series in philosophy and biology.

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Contents

Ch. 1. Cognitive Science Is Not Cognitive Psychology -- Ch. 2. The Dilemma of Mental Causality. Mental States as Higher Level Properties. Privileged Regularities and Ceteris Paribus Clauses. Screening off Causes. Ignoring the Realism/Antirealism Debate -- Ch. 3. Hierarchies in the Brain. The Neuron. The Methodological Individualism/Anti-Individualism Debate. Hierarchies in Neuroscience. "Privileged" Causality in Neuroscience. Explanation in Cognitive Science -- Ch. 4. Computationalism and Functional Analysis: A Pragmatic Approach. Formal Accounts of Computationalism. Computational Satisfaction and True Computation. Functionalism and Functional Analysis. Philosophical Functionalism. An Example. The Function/Structure Distinction -- Ch. 5. Reductionism in the Cognitive Sciences. Reductionism in Philosophy of Mind. Arguments against Reductionism. Cognitive Theories of Emotion: A Test Case. Explanatory Extension --
Ch. 6. The Dual Memory Hypothesis and the Structure of Interdisciplinary Theories. Developmental Studies for a Dual Processing System. The Distinction between Implicit and Explicit Memory. Neural Evidence for the Dual Memory Hypothesis. The Theoretical Framework. "Two-Part" Interdisciplinary Theories. Putting It All Together -- Ch. 7. Interdisciplinary Theories and Bridge Sciences: The Case of Event Related Potentials. The Challenge. ERPs. The Timing of Priming. Bridge Sciences. Appendix: Cognitive Science and the Semantic View.

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95046981

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