Table of Contents “...Explaining people : theoretical psychology throughout the ages -- Ways of knowing : the scientific method and its alternatives -- From philosophy to laboratory : the arrival of empirical psychology -- The evolution of measurement : from physiognomy to psychometrics -- The behaviourist revolution : actions as data -- The cognitive revolution : the metaphor of computation -- Neuroscience and genetics : 21st century reductionism? ...”

Subjects “...Neurosciences History....”

Table of Contents “...Setting the scene -- Man as machine : origins of the idea -- Anticipatory engines -- Maybe minds are machines too -- Movements beneath the mantle -- Cognitive science comes together -- The rise of computational psychology -- The mystery of the missing discipline --Transforming linguistics -- When Gofai was Newfai -- Of bombs and bombshells -- Connectionism, its birth and Renaissance -- Swimming alongside the kraken -- From neurophysiology to computational neuroscience -- A life in embryo -- Philosophies of mind as machine -- What next?...”
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