Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Cognitive Science Is Not Cognitive Psychology
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
3. Hierarchies in the Brain
The Neuron The Methodological Individualism/Anti-Individualism Debate Hierarchies in Neuroscience "Privileged" Causality in Neuroscience Explanation in Cognitive Science
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
5. Reductionism in the Cognitive Sciences
Reductionism in Philosophy of Mind Arguments against Reductionism Cognitive Theories of Emotion: A Test Case Explanatory Extension
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
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
Notes
References
Index