{"product_id":"philosophical-and-empirical-approaches-to-psychology-9781498516600","title":"Philosophical and Empirical Approaches to","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilosophical and Empirical Approaches to Psychology: Mentalism vs. Anti-Mentalism philosophically analyzes four different approaches to psychology: introspectionism, behaviourism, cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience to explore the concept of the mind, which developed from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century up through present day psychology. The resulting ideas originating from these approaches are divided into two main groups in this book, mentalism (whose supporters assume that mind is not reducible to something else) and anti-mentalism (whose supporters assume that mind is indeed reducible to something else). This book argues that adopting one idea over another can have a profound influence in a psychologist's research. Further, the author shows that some controversial psychological notions like consciousness pertain to a particular mentalistic approach. Many psychologists do not consider such notions scientific, but he argues that this depends upon their a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Chapter 1: Mentalism Chapter 2: Anti-Mentalism Chapter 3: New Mentalism Chapter 4: New Anti-Mentalism Chapter 5: A Re-Evaluation of the Damasio’s Somatic Marker Hypothesis Chapter 6: Re-testing the Somatic Marker Hypothesis I: Replication and Behavioural Data Chapter 7: Re-testing the Somatic Marker Hypothesis II: Physiological and Qualitative Data Chapter 8: Doubts on the Somatic Marker Hypothesis Chapter 9: Concluding Considerations Appendix A Appendix B References About the Author","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040661111127,"sku":"9781498516600","price":74.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498516600.jpg?v=1750947428","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/philosophical-and-empirical-approaches-to-psychology-9781498516600","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}