First published in 1983, Perception, Learning and the Self is a collection of essays demonstrating the incompleteness of the information-processing model in cognitive psychology and the connection between epistemic factors and social conditions in the making of the self. It is suggested that any framework employed to view cognition must be an essentially social one, in which knowers are seen as selves who are agents with feelings and attitudes. Professor Hamlyn argues that, by failing to acknowledge this social element, the information-processing model presents an overly simplistic view of the systems that underlie cognition, and thus is liable to distort what is at stake. Professor Hamlyn considers the contributions of a number of major psychologists to this area of study, including James Gibson, Jean Piaget and Sigmund Freud. This book will be of interest to students of philosophy and psychology.
Author(s): D. W. Hamlyn
Series: Routledge Revivals
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 323
City: London
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Orignal Half Title
Orignal Title Page
Orignal Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Perception
1: Unconscious Inference and Judgment in Perception
2: The Concept of Information in Gibson’s Theory of Perception
3: Perception and Agency
4: Perception, Information and Attention
Part II: Learning and Genetic Issues
5: The Logical and Psychological Aspects of Learning
6: Conditioning and Behaviour
7: Epistemology and Conceptual Development
8: Human Learning
9: The Concept of Development
10: What Exactly is Social About the Origins of Understanding?
Part III: The Self and Interpersonal Understanding
11: Unconscious Intentions
12: Self-Deception
13: Person-Perception and Our Understanding of Others
14: Self-Knowledge
15: The Phenomena of Love and Hate
16: Learning to Love
Epilogue
Index
