The Nature of Psychological Explanation

by Robert Cummins

Book Overview

In exploring the nature of psychological explanation, this book looks at how psychologists theorize about the human ability to calculate, to speak a language and the like. It shows how good theorizing explains or tries to explain such abilities as perception and cognition. It recasts the familiar explanations of "intelligence" and "cognitive capacity" as put forward by philosophers such as Fodor, Dennett, and others in terms of a theory of explanation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262030942
• ISBN13: 9780262030946
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.