Conclusion and Future Directions
In this essay, I have reviewed some important issues that have been at the center of the philosophy of psychology: the legitimacy of mentalism, the modularity of the cognitive architecture, the situated and extended nature of cognition, the nature of concepts, and the mechanisms underlying mindreading.
To conclude, I will sketch what the philosophy of psychology may possibly look like in the forthcoming years. Certainly, philosophers will probably continue contributing to the areas discussed in this essay (see footnote 1 for other areas of active debate), but they will also probably turn to new issues. These might include questions about the methodology of psychology, which has so far attracted little attention among philosophers (but see Trout 1998, Glymour 2001), such as the role of null hypothesis significance testing (Trout 1999, Fidler 2005, Machery, no date) and the relation between group data and the study of the mind of individuals. In addition, philosophers of psychology will probably attempt to improve our understanding of the relation between psychology and neuroscience (e.g., Schouten and Looren de Jong 2007).[129]
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Allhoff F.. Philosophies of the Sciences: A Guide. N.-Y.: Wiley-Blackwell,2010. — 386 p.. 2010
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