Against Cognitivism Alternative Foundations for Cognitive Psychology

Introduction - why reject cognitivism as an approach to cognition, Alan Costall and Arthur Still mechanism and romanticism - selective history, Arthur Still on not-doing and on trying and failing, Don Mixon Frederic Bartlett and the rise of prehistoric psychology, Alan Costall the rhetorical-responsive nature of mind - social constructionist approach, John Shotter the concepts of the universal in the Cartesian and Hegelian frameworks, Ivana Markova cognitivism - pheomenological critique, Neil Bolton the contextualism that is behaviour analysis - an alternative to cognitive psychology, Edward K. Morris "graceful degradation" - cognitivism and the metaphors of the computers, Alan Costall Gibson's ecological approach to cognition, Edward Reed ecological realism and the fallacy of "objectification", Bill Noble mutual elimination of dualism in Vygotsky and Gibson, Arthur Still and Alan Costall alternative theoretical frameworks for psychology - a synopsis, Benny Shannon.