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Reddit mentions of Philosophy of Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)
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There's a massive amount of relevant philosophy. If your professors are talking about Foucault and existentialism then I guess there are some trends in psychology that I am not very familiar with - I thought most of psychology was making undergraduates fill out forms and then generalizing from that to all of humanity. In any case, I can't help you much down the Sartre/Camus track because that's not my bailiwick.
I can point out a few areas of inquiry, though. The two most obvious are philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology.
Phil mind is fucking huuuuuuuuge. Interestingly enough the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy doesn't have an entry for it, so I'll link to a random relevant article from which you can follow footnotes/related pages at the bottom/etc. and also the IEP's Mind & CogSci category whicih you can browse through. You could also take that course you're thinking of taking or pick up an intro book - the second, third, fifth, and sixth books on Amazon.com when I search "philosophy of mind" seem pretty good, although I've only read one of them.
Philosophy of psychology is big too. It also overlaps with phil mind. In any case, although I haven't read them, these two books from José Luis Bermudez seem pretty good:
http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Psychology-Contemporary-Introduction-Introductions/dp/0415275954
http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Psychology-Contemporary-Readings-Routledge/dp/0415368626/
Ooh, ooh, ooh! I wrote a big chunk of my thesis on exactly this question. However, I'm with /u/TychoCelchuuu on not just giving away all the answers.
Here's a hint: it doesn't really vindicate it at all, but it isn't supposed to. Fodor's RTM presupposes propositional attitude psychology is an accurate characterisation of cognition. RTM is an analysis of how propositional attitude psychology could function at the level of brain/mind processes.
You should definitely read Jose Bermudez's book Philosophy of Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction chapters 2-4. It's the best work on this issue, as far as I am aware.
There is a growing literature on the topic, so you could start by looking at journals (Philosophical Psychology, Mind and Language, and Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology are three you might want to look at). There's also [this collection] (http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Psychology-Contemporary-Introduction-Introductions/dp/0415275954). I also like this book, which is a fairly accessible intro text but not a textbook.