Bøker av William R. Uttal

This book examines the scientific basis of reductionist approaches to understanding visual perception, as well as a critique of con-temporary thinking on perceptual science. For experimental psychologists, and researchers studying perception.

This book examines the question--are mental processes accessible-- within the context of reviewing the past, present, and desirable future of behaviorism.

This volume covers endogenous and exogenous causal forces in perception; inevitable natural laws and superpowerful mathematics; measurement, counting, magical graphs, and some statistical curiosities; and erroneous assumptions and conceptual errors.

For many years behaviorism was criticized because it rejected the study of perception. This rejection was based on the extreme view that percepts were internal subjective experiences and thus not subject to examination. This book argues that this logic is incorrect and shows how visual perception, particularized in the study of form recognition, can be carried out from the behavioral point of view if certain constraints and limitations are understood and accepted. The book discusses the idea of representation of forms, considers the major historical neural, psychological, and computational theories of form recognition, and then concludes by presenting a modern approach to the problem. In this book, William Uttal continues his critical analysis of the foundations of modern psychology. He is particularly concerned with the logical and conceptual foundations of visual perception and uses form recognition as a vehicle to rationalize the discrepancies between classic behaviorism and what we now appreciate are legitimate research areas.

Sequel to author's earlier work: Neural theories of mind: why the mind-brain problem may never be solved, published in 2005.

This book critiques the theory of mind-brain dualism as one of the rocks of psychological theory. It looks at the pervading question of how does "brain" make "mind"? This volume looks at how this problem is inherently intractable and that no convergence

Uttal has written 9 LEA titles over the past 25 yrs. The audience will be the same people who bought Uttal's past work, as well as people teaching courses in THEORY & METHODS of PSYCH.,those w/interests in THEORETICAL PSYCH & the HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF

This text examines the scientific basis of reductionist approaches to understanding visual perception. The author considers the "misdirection" of efforts to explain perceptual and other mental functions in terms of internal cognitive mechanisms, formal models or the brain's neural structures.

This volume examines the question - are mental processes accessible - within the context of reviewing the past, present and desirable future of behaviourism.

Directed to scholars and senior-level graduate students, this book is an iconoclastic survey of the history of dualism and its impact on contemporary cognitive psychology.

An Introduction to the Concept of Theory; Mind and Brain Before the Modern Cognitive Neuroscience Era; The Limits of Cognitive Neuroscience - An Epistemological Interlude; Field Theories - Do What You Can Do When You Can't Do What You Should Do; Single Neuron Theories - The Influence of a Point in Time; Network Theories - Truth.