The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Psychology, Second Edition is an invaluable guide and major reference source to the key topics, problems, concepts, and debates in philosophy of psychology and is the first companion of its kind.

Table of Contents

• Notes on contributors
• Introduction to the second edition - Sarah Robins, John Symons, and Paco Calvo
• Part I: Historical background to the philosophy of psychology
• 1. Rationalist roots of modern psychology - Gary Hatfield
• 2. Empiricist roots of modern psychology - Raymond Martin
• 3. Early experimental psychology - Alan Kim
• 4. Freud and the unconscious - Edward Erwin
• 5. The early history of the quale and its relation to the senses - Brian L. Keeley
• 6. Behaviourism - David Braddon-Mitchell
• 7. Cognitivism - Alan Garnham
• Part II: Psychological explanation
• 8. What is psychological explanation? - William Bechtel and Cory D. Wright
• 9. Is folk psychology a theory? - Ian Ravenscroft
• 10. Computational functionalism - Thomas W. Polger
• 11. The interface between psychology and neuroscience - Valerie Gray Hardcastle
• 12. Connectionism - Amanda J. C. Sharkey and Noel Sharkey
• 13. Embodied cognition and the extended mind - Fred Adams and Ken Aizawa
• 14. Conceptual problems in statistics, testing and experimentation - David Danks and Frederick Eberhardt
• Part III: Cognition and representation
• 15. Problems of representation I: nature and role - Dan Ryder
• 16. Problems of representation II: naturalizing content - Dan Ryder
• 17. The language of thought - Susan Schneider
• 18. Modularity - Verena Gottschling
• 19. Nativism - Richard Samuels
• 20. Memory - Mark Rowlands
• 21. Interactivism - Mark H. Bickhard
• 22. The propositional imagination - Shaun Nichols
• 23. Belief and representation in nonhuman animals - Sarah Beth Lesson, Brandon Tinklenberg, and Kristin Andrews
• 24. Representation in the prediction error minimization framework - Alex Kiefer and Jakob Hohwy
• Part IV: The biological basis of psychology
• 25. Representation and the brain - Arthur B. Markman
• 26. Levels of mechanisms: a field guide to the hierarchical structure of the world - Carl F. Craver
• 27. Cellular and subcellular neuroscience - John Bickle
• 28. Networks and dynamics: twenty-first-century neuroscience - William Bechtel
• 29. Evolutionary models in psychology - Michael Wheeler
• 30. Development and learning - Aarre Laakso
• 31. Understanding embodied cognition through dynamical systems thinking - Gregor Schöner and Hendrik Reimann
• 32. The philosophy of plant neurobiology - Manuel Heras-Escribano and Paco Calvo
• Part V: Perceptual experience
• 33. Consciousness - Tim Bayne
• 34. Attention - Christopher Mole
• 35. Introspection - Jordi Fernández
• 36. Dreaming - John Sutton
• 37. Emotion - Anthony P. Atkinson
• 38. Vision - Valtteri Arstila
• 39. Color - Jonathan Cohen
• 40. Audition - Casey O’Callaghan
• 41. Some recent directions in the philosophy and psychology of the temporal content of perceptual experience - Rick Grush
• Part VI: Personhood
• 42. Action and mind - Alfred R. Mele
• 43. Moral judgment - Jennifer Nado, Daniel Kelly, and Stephen Stich
• 44. Personal identity - Marya Schechtman
• 45. The name and nature of confabulation - William Hirstein
• 46. Buddhist persons and eudaimonia Buddha - Owen Flanagan
• 47. The psychology of epistemic judgement - Jennifer Nagel and Jessica Wright
• 48. Group cognition - Deborah Tollefsen and Kevin Ryan