Mind, the Body and the World: Psychology After Cognitivism?

Brief Description: Concerning the cognitive, or information processing approach to psychology, this book asks what it is, how it originated, and whether and how desirable it is to look for ways that go beyond it. Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Brief Description: The roots of cognitivism lie deep in the history of Western thought, and to develop a genuinely post-cognitivist psychology, this investigation goes back to presuppositions descended from Platonic/Cartesian assumptions and beliefs about the nature of thought. Review Quotes:"For too long, the assumptions that the mind is identical with the brain and that the brain is essentially an information processor have dominated psychology. This brilliant book challenges this dominant paradigm and, more importantly, suggests how we might shift from an intellectually bankrupt cognitivism towards an understanding of the mind that will reinstate the whole person in the real world at the heart of psychology. It should be read by anyone who has a serious interest in the future of either psychology or the philosophy of mind."--Raymond TallisReview Quotes:"A rollicking survey of the 'second wave' of cognitive science, with stimulating ideas for a new psychology relating neuroscience, mental life, and social action. With uncompromising integrity, these scientists and philosophers portray the pluralistic, complex landscape of mental life that will guide 21st century cognitive science."--William J. Clancey, author of Situated CognitionReview Quotes:"The work under review had the distinctive quality of bringing together both critique of the old and resentations of the new... [Johnson's] tallent lies in bringing to the surface aspects of our thought that are so reflexive and intuitive we typically fail to notice they obtain."--Richard Gipps "Metapsychology "

Contributor Bio:  Davies, John John Davies has Emeritus status at the University of Strathclyde. He has directed the Centre for Applied Psychology for some twenty years, and published widely in two areas, namely public health and human factors. He is currently Chair of the Scottish Government working group on Drug Prevention, and for 18 years was editor in chief of the journal Addiction Research and Theory. He has published a number of books (The Psychology of Music; The Myth of Addiction; Drugspeak; Safety Management: A Qualitative Systems Aprroach).