1st Edition

Cognition and the Symbolic Processes Volume 2

Edited By Walter B. Weimer, David S. Palermo Copyright 1982
400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1982, this book (following the previous volume published in 1974) continued to look at current issues in theoretical and cognitive psychology and looked for new directions for fruitful theory and research. The major concern for all the contributors was with the construction of a psychology of the higher mental processes through the evaluation of and improvement upon past... Read more

Preface.  1. Observational Perspective and Descriptive Level in Perceiving and Acting Carol A. Fowler and Michael T. Turvey  2. The Need for Complementarity in Models of Cognitive Behavior: A Response to Fowler and Turvey H. H. Pattee  3. Fowler–Turvey–Pattee Discussion  4. Meaning John Macnamara  5. Macnamara Discussion  6. Presentationalism: Toward a Self-Reflective Psychological Theory James E. Martin  7. On Listening: What Does Rhetoric Have to Say to Cognitive Psychology? Carroll C. Arnold  8. Argument and Intellectual Change: Comments in the Context of Arnold’s Chapter Charles N. Cofer  9. Arnold–Cofer Discussion  10. Ecological Psychology: The Consequence of a Commitment to Realism Robert Shaw, M. T. Turvey and William Mace  11. Gibson–Shaw Discussion  12. Hayek’s Approach to the Problems of Complex Phenomena: An Introduction to the Theoretical Psychology of The Sensory Order Walter B. Weimer  13. The Sensory Order After 25 Years F. A. Hayek  14. Categorical Perception: A Contractual Approach Dennis R. Proffitt and Terry Halwes  15. Weimer–Hayek Discussion  16. Ambiguity and the Future of Psychology: Meditations Leibniziennes Walter B. Weimer  17. Reflections on the Place of Brain in the Ecology of Mind Karl H. Pribam.  Author Index.  Subject Index.

Biography

Walter B. Weimer and David S. Palermo