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  1. Relevance of the history of concepts for psychopathology and the other sciences of mind: introspection as a case in point.Massimiliano Aragona - 2013 - Dialogues in Philosophy, Mental and Neuro Sciences (1):1-3.
    Sometimes it happens that the same concept is discussed independently but, at the same time, in different disciplinary fields. The recent dominance of neuroscientific research has reintroduced into the experimental realm the importance of the experimental subject’s self-evaluation to be correlated to detectable changes into brain activity. For example, the experimental subjects are instructed to press a button or move a finger when they perceive or feel something, or they fill questionnaires supposed to measure their experience; all these “data” are (...)
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  • Inadequacy of the method of introspection in dealing with the psychological problems of thought.Whilhelm Maximilian Wundt - 2013 - Dialogues in Philosophy, Mental and Neuro Sciences 6 (1):8-9.
    In this text Wundt challenges associationist and rationalist psychology and suggests that what we need is a careful analysis of the more elementary psychical processes, of the facts of attention and of the wider scope of consciousness, as well as of the relations between them and of the manifold affective processes that intervene in all these cases. It is rejected the view that humans could be able to explain what happens when they are thinking by simply turning their attention directly (...)
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  • Philosophical research on cognition.Martina Plümacher - 2011 - Synthese 179 (1):153 - 167.
    At the turn of the twentieth century, a number of philosophers introduced the idea of philosophical research on cognition that could enter into competition with psychology, which was developing into an autonomous discipline at that time. In view of the problems of the traditional but still prevailing associationist theory, Ernst Cassirer demanded a more sophisticated theory that could explain the human ability to concentrate one's thoughts on a topic, such as a problem or a task. He presented a representational theory (...)
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