Mind Rules: a Philosophical Essay on Psychological Rules and the Rules of Psychology Ingmar Visser Abstract: Mind Rules A philosophical essay on psychological rules and the rules of psychology. Ingmar Visser * What exactly does the notion of a rule, that is so frequently used in psychological explanations, amount to and what is its relation to the notion of a reflex that was popular in behaviorist psychology until the forties? * How are aforementioned rules represented in the different models of cognition that have prevailed in modern psychology? * How do the different modes of representation relate to questions of learning and nativism?