Explanation and environment: the case of psychology
Författare
Redaktör
- Johannes Persson
- Petri Ylikoski
Summary, in English
The environment in which our cognitive processes operate is crucial for understanding their current form, their reliability, and their function. In the following pages I will look at the role the environment plays in psychological explanations of cognitive behaviour, also when the explanations are not of an evolutionary character. In particular, I will focus on how environmental considerations (broadly) help us explain the form or the function of a psychological process.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2007
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
163-176
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Rethinking Explanation
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)
- Philosophy
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-1-4020-5580-5