Brain, Mind, and Human Behavior in Contemporary Cognitive Science: Critical Assessments of the Philosophy of Psychology

by Jeff Coulter, Wes W. Sharrock

This book engages a range of currently debated issues in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, challenging certain cognitivist positions in contemporary neuroscience. In addressing each topic, an effort is made to illuminate the historical-philosophical origins of the problems confronted, exposing a central the way in which various forms of philosophical materialism are often uncritically invoked to buttress 'scientific' claims about the human mind/brain and behavior. The authors conclude that a radical reorientation is required if the confusion that permeates the field is to be eliminated.

230 pages, Hardcover

First published September 30, 2007

About the author

Professor Coulter’s interests and publications range from ethno-methodological studies of practical action to Wittgenstein, from the analysis of human mentality (especially the mind-body problem) to the sociological re-specification of theories of perception and emotion. He has also written on the problems of applying probability theory to the analysis of human action.