Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-370) and index

What is the philosophy of psychology? What counts as psychology? ; Historical background ; Psychological concepts and the philosophy of psychology ; Philosophy of psychology and philosophy of mind -- Levels of psychological explanation and the interface problem. Explanation at different levels ; Personal and subpersonal levels of explanation ; Horizontal explanation, vertical explanation and commonsense psychology ; The interface problem and four pictures of the mind -- The nature of commonsense psychology : the autonomous mind and the functional mind. The autonomous mind and commonsense psychology ; The autonomous mind and the interface problem ; The functional mind ; Philosophical functionalism and psychological functionalism ; Psychological functionalism and the interface problem -- Causes in the mind : from the functional mind to the representational mind. Causation by content : problems with the functional mind ; The representational mind and the language of thought ; The mind ascomputer -- Neural networks and the neurocomputational mind. Top-down explanation vs the co-evolutionary research strategy ; Cognition, co-evolution and the brain ; Neural network models ; Neural network modelling and the co-evolutionary research paradigm : the example of language -- Rationality, mental causation and commonsense psychology. Real patterns without real causes ; How anomalous is the mental? ; The counterfactual approach ; Overview -- The scope of commonsense psychology. Thinking about the scope of commonsense psychology ; Implicit and explicit commonsense psychology : the broad construal ; Modest revisionism : the simulationist proposal ; Narrowing the scope of commonsense psychology (1) ; Narrowing the scope of commonsense psychology (2) ; A suggestion? -- From perception to action : the standard view and its critics. From perception to action : the standard view ; Cognitive architecture and the standard view ; The distinction between perception and cognition ; Domain-specific reasoning and the massive modularity hypothesis -- Propositional attitudes : contents and vehicles. Another look at the interface problem ; The argument for structure ; The problem of structure in artificial neural networks ; Rejecting the structure requirement ; Finding structure in artificial neural networks ; Overview -- Thinking and language. Thinking in words (1) : the inner speech hypothesis ; Thinking in words (2) : the rewiring hypothesis ; The state of play ; Practical reasoning and the language of thought ; Perceptual integration ; Concept learning -- Concluding thoughts : toward a fifth picture

"José Luis Bermúdez introduces the philosophy of psychology as an interdisciplinary exploration of the nature and mechanisms of cognition. Philosophy of Psychology charts out four influential 'pictures of the mind' and uses them to explore central topics in the philosophical foundations of psychology, including the relation between different levels of studying the mind/brain; the nature and scope of psychological explanation; the architecture of cognition; and the relation between thought and language."--Publisher description