The prehistory of cognitive science / edited by Andrew Brook.

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

xi, 258 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The separation of thought and action in western tradition / Stellan Ohlsson -- Language and thought : Descartes and some reflections on venerable themes / Noam Chomsky -- Hobbes's challenge / Marcelo Dascal -- Doing it his way : Hume's theory of ideas and contemporary cognitive science / Anne Jaap Jacobson -- Kant and cognitive science / Andrew Brook -- The early Darwinians : natural selection and cognitive science / Don Ross -- Wundt's theoretical psychology : an unknown legacy from a gilded age / Arthur L. Blumenthal -- Frege : furnishing formal foundations / Peter Simons -- Remembering William James / Tracy B. Henley -- Freud's interdisciplinary fiasco / Patricia Kitcher.