This book aims at exploring the potential for interaction between philosophy of mind (the area of philosophy that deals with our commonsense conception of mental matters--commonly called "folk psychology") and the science of psychology.

The present book is a collection of essays exploring some classical dimensions of mind both from the perspective of an empirically-informed philosophy and from the point of view of a philosophically-informed psychology.

In the last three decades, the level of interaction between philosophy and psychology has increased dramatically. As a contribution to this trend, this book explores some areas in which this interaction has been very productive – or, at least, highly provocative.

The interaction between philosophy and psychology can be of different kinds. For example, psychology can be the subject for philosophy of science. In such a case, the philosopher of science pursues the usual set of issues (explanation, reduction, etc.) within the special case of psychology. Or, philosophy can be the source of proposals for improving psychology. Vice versa, the findings of psychology can be used to criticize philosophical theories and suggest ways to resolve some traditional philosophical questions about the mind, such as the nature of mental representation, perception, emotion, memory, consciousness and free will.

The chapters in this book reflect these different forms of interaction in an effort to clarify issues and debates concerning some traditional cognitive capacities. The result is a philosophically and scientifically up-to-date collection of "cartographies of the mind".

Contributors

Preface

Ⅰ. THE INTERPLAY OF LEVELS

 1 Setting the stage: Persons, minds and brains

Massimo Marraffa

 2 Computational explanation and mechanistic explanation of mind

Gualtiero Piccinini

 3 Computationalism under attack

Roberto Cordeschi and Marcello Frixione

Ⅱ. DIMENSIONS OF MIND

 4 Vision science and the problem of perception

Alfredo Paternoster

 5 Synaesthesia, functionalism and phenomenology

Fiona Macpherson

 6 Integrating the philosophy and psychology of memory: Two case studies

John Sutton

 7 Emotion and cognition: A new map of the terrain

Craig De Lancey

 8 Categorization and concepts: A methodological framework

Cristina Meini and A lfredo Paternoster

 9 Errors in deductive reasoning

Pierdaniele Giaretta and Paolo Cherubini

 10 Language and comprehension processes

Elisabetta Gola

Ⅲ. DIMENSIONS OF AGENCY

A. Self-Knowledge

 11 The unconscious

Giovanni Jervis

 12 Self-deception and hypothesis testing

Alfred R. Mele

 13 Autonomous agency and social psychology

Eddy Nahmias

B. Consciousness

 14 The cognitive role of phenomenal consciousness

Tiziana Zalla

 15 The unity of consciousness: A cartography

Tim Bayne

 16 Extended cognition and the unity of mind. Why we are not "spread into the world"

Michele Di Francesco

C. Agency and the Self

 17 Extreme self-denial

Ralph Kennedy and George Graham

 18 Empirical psychology, transcendental phenomenology, and the self

Stephen L. White

 19 How to deal with the free will issue: The roles of conceptual analysis and empirical science

Mario De Caro

D. Social Agency

 20 The beliefs of mute animals

Simone Gozzano

 21 Naive psychology and simulations

Cristina Meini

 22 The social mind

Francesco Ferretti

 23 Social behaviors and brain interventions: New strategies for reductionists

Aaron Kostko and John Bickle

References

Index of names

Index of subjects