Principles of Cognition, Language and Action: Essays on the Foundations of a Science of Psychology

Foreword. Acknowledgements. Part I: The Development of a Science of Psychology. 1. Introduction to Assumptions and Arguments. 2. Alternative Assumptions and Principles. 3. Problem of Explanations and Theories of Visual Perception. 4. Consequences for Perception Psychology and Epistemology. Part II: The Relation Between Language, Cognition and Reality. 5. The Relation Between Language and Reality. 6. Language, Concepts and Reality. 7. Situations, Action and Knowledge. 8. Scientific and Other Descriptions of Reality. 9. Physicalism and Psychology. 10. Context, Content and Reference - The Case for Beliefs and Intentionality. 11. Propositions about Real as Opposed to Fictitious Things. 12. Why There still Cannot be a Causal Theory of Content. 13. The Relation Between Language, Cognition and Reality I. 14. The Relation Between Language, Cognition and Reality II. 15. The Relation between Language, Cognition and Reality III. Part III: Identity. 16. Identity and Identification - Same and Different. Part IV: Persons. 17. Some Consequences of Epistemological Idealism. 18. Wittgenstein's Theories of Language. 19. The External World and the Internal. 20. The Inter-Subjectivity of Knowledge and Language. 21. The Conditions for People to be and Function as Persons: Summary and Consequences. References. Index.