Mill and Mental Phenomena: Critical Contributions to a Science of Cognition

Attempts to define cognition preceded John Stuart Mill’s life and continue to this day. John Stuart Mill envisioned a science of mental phenomena informed by associationism, empirical introspection, and neurophysiology, and he advanced specific ideas that still influence modern conceptions of cognit...

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Autor principal: Bistricky, Steven L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4217623/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25379235
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs3020217
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description Attempts to define cognition preceded John Stuart Mill’s life and continue to this day. John Stuart Mill envisioned a science of mental phenomena informed by associationism, empirical introspection, and neurophysiology, and he advanced specific ideas that still influence modern conceptions of cognition. The present article briefly reviews Mill’s personal history and the times in which he lived, and it traces the evolution of ideas that have run through him to contemporary cognitive concepts. The article also highlights contemporary problems in defining cognition and supports specific criteria regarding what constitutes cognition.
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spelling pubmed-42176232014-11-06 Mill and Mental Phenomena: Critical Contributions to a Science of Cognition Bistricky, Steven L. Behav Sci (Basel) Review Attempts to define cognition preceded John Stuart Mill’s life and continue to this day. John Stuart Mill envisioned a science of mental phenomena informed by associationism, empirical introspection, and neurophysiology, and he advanced specific ideas that still influence modern conceptions of cognition. The present article briefly reviews Mill’s personal history and the times in which he lived, and it traces the evolution of ideas that have run through him to contemporary cognitive concepts. The article also highlights contemporary problems in defining cognition and supports specific criteria regarding what constitutes cognition. MDPI 2013-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4217623/ /pubmed/25379235 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs3020217 Text en © 2013 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4217623/
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