A widely held and intuitively plausible tenet of computational psychology holds that if two
individuals are identical in all physical respects then they are psychologically identical as …

Tyler Burge (1986) has argued that the practice of psychology-particularly the practice of the
psychology of vision-is not individualistic. This is to say, roughly, that the semantic contents …

R recent years have seen in psychology-and overlapping parts of linguistics, artificial
intelligence, and the social sciences-the development of some semblance of agreement …

The purpose of this paper is to defend the thesis that David Marr's (1982) computational
theory of vision is individualistic. I shall not be much concerned with general arguments for …

This book offers an extensive critique of individualism in psychology, a view that has been
the subject of debate between philosophers such as Jerry Fodor and Tyler Burge for many …

6 THE JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY to show that mental states that differ only in" broad"
intentional properties (the sorts of intentional properties that the mental states of molecular …

If you cannot lucidly doubt that you exist as a thinking thing, then nor can there be a lucid
doubt about the reality of those psychological states and attributes whose possession is …

104 ROBERT A. WILSON constraint on taxonomy and so explanation in a truly scientific
psychology; individualism specifies a minimal condition that explanations in a scientific …

It has often been thought that individualism in psychology, the view that psychological states
must be taxonomized so as to supervene on the intrinsic, physical properties of individuals, l …

Skaggs' expressed conviction that'ideographic'knowledge does not deserve to be
called'scientific'(see 20: 33) is discussed to correct misrepresentation of some of the author's …