1st Edition

Perception, Learning and the Self Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology

By D. W. Hamlyn Copyright 1981
324 Pages
by Routledge

321 Pages
by Routledge

321 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1983, Perception, Learning and the Self is a collection of essays demonstrating the incompleteness of the information-processing model in cognitive psychology and the connection between epistemic factors and social conditions in the making of the self. It is suggested that any framework employed to view cognition must be an essentially social one, in which knowers are seen as... Read more

Preface and acknowledgements Introduction 1. Unconscious inference and judgment in perception 2. The concept of information in Gibson’s theory of perception 3. Perception and agency 4. Perception, information, and attention 5. The logical and psychological aspects of learning 6. Conditioning and behaviour 7. Epistemology and conceptual development 8. Human learning 9. The concept of development 10. What exactly is social about the origins of understanding? 11. Unconscious intentions 12. Self-deception 13. Person-perception and our understanding of others 14. Self-knowledge 15. The phenomena of love and hate 16. Learning to love Epilogue Index

Biography

David Hawkridge