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ISBN 10: 0199207070 
ISBN 13: 9780199207077
Author: Peter Carruthers

This book is a comprehensive development and defense of one of the guiding assumptions of evolutionary psychology: that the human mind is composed of a large number of semi-independent modules. The Architecture of the Mind has three main goals. One is to argue for massive mental modularity. Another is to answer a 'How possibly?' challenge to any such approach. The first part of the book lays out the positive case supporting massive modularity. It also outlines how the thesis should best be developed, and articulates the notion of 'module' that is in question. Then the second part of the book takes up the challenge of explaining how the sorts of flexibility and creativity that are distinctive of the human mind could possibly be grounded in the operations of a massive number of modules. Peter Carruthers's third aim is to show how the various components of the mind are likely to be linked and interact with one another - indeed, this is crucial to demonstrating how the human mind, together with its familiar capacities, can be underpinned by a massively modular set of mechanisms. He outlines and defends the basic framework of a perception / belief / desire / planning / motor-control architecture, as well as detailing the likely components and their modes of connectivity. Many specific claims about the place within this architecture of natural language, of a mind-reading system, and others are explained and motivated. A number of novel proposals are made in the course of these discussions, one of which is that creative human thought depends upon a prior kind of creativity of action. Written with unusual clarity and directness, and surveying an extensive range of research in cognitive science, this book will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in the nature and organization of the mind.

The Architecture of the Mind Massive Modularity and the Flexibility of Thought 1st Table of contents:

1 The Case for Massively Modular Models of Mind
1. Introduction: On Modularity
2. What Massive Modularity could not be
3. The Argument from Design
4. The Argument from Animals
5. In Defense of Evolutionary Psychology
6. The Argument from Computational Tractability
7. What does Computational Frugality Really Require?
8. Conclusion
2 The Architecture of Animal Minds
1. Invertebrate Psychology
2. Dual Visual Systems in Mammals (and others)
3. Multiple Belief–Generating Modules
4. The Case Against General Learning
5. Multiple Motivational Modules
6. Multiple Memory Systems
7. The Fragmentation of Action–Control
8. Mental Rehearsal and Practical Reason
9. Conclusion
3 Modules of the Human Mind
1. Against the ‘One Major New Adaptation’ Hypothesis
2. Physics, Biology, Psychology, and Statistics
3. Mind-Reading and Mental Architecture
4. Language in Mind
5. Imitation and Cultural Accumulation
6. Human Motivational Modules
7. Normative Reasoning and Motivation
8. Conclusion
4 Modularity and Flexibility: The First Steps
1. The Challenges
2. Stimulus Independence and Inner Speech
3. Language as Content-Integrator
4. The Reorientation Data
5. Alternative Theories of Content Flexibility
6. Inner Speech and the Flexibility of Reasoning
7. What the Thesis is and Isn’t
8. Conclusion
5 Creative Cognition in a Modular Mind
1. Introduction: Constraints on Theorizing
2. The Creative-Action Theory of Creativity
3. Creativity and Inner Speech
4. Autism and the Evolutionary Functions of Pretence
5. A Contrasting Theory of Pretence and Creativity
6. Creativity and Metaphor
7. Scaling up: Creativity in Adulthood
8. Conclusion
6 The Cognitive Basis of Science
1. What does it take to be a Scientist?
2. The Hunter as Scientist
3. The Child as Scientist?
4. System 2 Reasoning and Science
5. Fodor on Abductive Reason
6. The Anatomy of Abduction
7. Two Kinds of System 2 Belief-Formation
8. Conclusion
7 Distinctively Human Practical Reason
1. The Challenges
2. Normative Modules Again
3. Theoretical Reasoning about Desires and Goods
4. Two Kinds of Practical Reasoning and Intention
5. Desires Versus Reasons
6. The Illusion of Conscious Will
7. Conclusion
8 Conclusion to the Volume

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