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3-System Theory of the Cognitive Brain: A post-Piagetian approach to cognitive development puts forward Olivier Houdé's 3-System Theory (3ST) of the cognitive brain. This ground-breaking theory anchors itself in a deep understanding of the history of psychology and fuels current psychological debates.
Preface to the English edition: one, two or three systems of thinking in human beings?
History of theories about thinking: philosophy, biology and psychology
From Psyche to the logos: antiquity
Mythology: Psyche, psychopomp and Oedipus
Plato: innate ideas and the will of the soul
Aristotle: the science of syllogisms and empiricism
Herophilos and Galen: the first mapping of the higher functions of the brain
Caring for the diseases of the soul
Non-Western antiquity: Indian psychology and Buddhism
From antiquity to the Middle Ages: St Augustine
Notes
Bibliography
Faith, truth and reasoning in the Middle Ages
Revealed truths, reasoned truths: faith and science in mediaeval psychology
Nominalism, the quarrel over universals and ‘Occam’s razor’
From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Notes
Bibliography
The inconstancy of the human being: from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
The Renaissance: Montaigne, a psychology of tolerance as opposed to religious fanaticism
The Grand Siècle: Descartes and the cogito, Pascal and persuasion
The Enlightenment: empiricism, innatism and pure reason
From the Enlightenment to the nineteenth century
Notes
Bibliography
Towards a science of psychology: the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Towards the birth of ‘official psychology’
The first psychology laboratories and the founding fathers of the twentieth century
Notes
Bibliography
3-system theory of thinking and reasoning
Jean Piaget’s theory or the logical system
Where does the logical system originate?
The interest in childhood
Against logicism: logic, reflection of thought
The ‘circle of the sciences’
The stages of intelligence
Establishment of hypothetico-deductive reasoning
Critics of Piaget’s theory
Notes
Bibliography
The dual-system theories: System 1 (intuition) and System 2 (logic)
Logic versus intuition: cognitive bias
Two systems: System 1 (intuitive) and System 2 (logical)
Emotional guidance in the brain
Notes
Bibliography
Inhibiting in order to reason: System 3 (executive)
Bias correction or debiasing
Vicariance: inhibiting System 1 to activate System 2
Emotion and the anticipation of regret in System 3
Notes
Bibliography
The paradox of reasoning in infants
Failures in statistics at university
Statistics in the cradle
What remains to be learned
Bibliography
Conclusion
Index