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We shall call mentalism the collection of psychological schools that treat mental processes separately from behavioral and neural ones. The strategy is often underpinned by some immaterialist philosophy of mind. (Recall sections 1.1 and 1.2.) Any such philosophy postulates that mind is immaterial, though possibly linked to matter, so that knowledge of the latter is irrelevant to psychology.
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Bunge, M., Ardila, R. (1987). Mentalism. In: Philosophy of Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4696-1_5
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