1st Edition
Toward A New Behaviorism The Case Against Perceptual Reductionism
By William R. Uttal
Copyright 1997
272 Pages
by
Psychology Press
272 Pages
by
Psychology Press
This volume examines the scientific basis of reductionist approaches to understanding visual perception. The author makes the provocative argument that contemporary neuroscience and cognitive science have gone off on a wild-goose chase in the search for reductionist explanations of perceptual phenomena. This book considers some specific and general examples of this misdirection and suggests an... Read more
Contents: Preface. Introduction: The Way Things Are. Barriers Between Theories and Mechanisms. The Case Against Perceptual Neuroreductionism. The Case Against Cognitive Reductionism. Toward a New Behaviorism -- A Summary and Some Conclusions. Emerging Principles.
Biography
William R. Uttal
"In Toward a New Behaviorism: The Case Against Perceptual Reductionism, the distinguished and prolific vision scientist William R. Uttal has offered an extended, thoughtful, far-reaching analysis of the prospects for understanding perceptual phenomena by reducing them to other domains....There is much that I find important and thought provoking in this book. I recommend it highly to anyone engaged in the reductionist enterprise within vision science, which means just about anybody who studies vision these days.
—Journal of Mathematical Psychology
