The World in the Head. - Cummins, Robert.
KORTE INHOUD
The World in the Head collects the best of Robert Cummins' papers on mental representation and psychological explanation. Running through these papers are a pair of themes: that explaining the mind requires functional analysis, not subsumption under "psychological laws", and that the propositional attitudes--belief, desire, intention--and their interactions, while real, are not the key to understanding the mind at a fundamental level. Taking these ideas seriously puts considerable strain on standard conceptions of rationality and reasoning, on truth-conditional semantics, and on our interpretation of experimental evidence concerning cognitive development, learning and the evolution of mental traits and processes. The temptation to read the structure of mental states and their interactions off the structure of human language is powerful and seductive, but has created a widening gap between what most philosophers and social scientists take for granted about the mind, and the framework we need to make sense what...
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Oxford UP: Oxford, 2010. Boards with dustwrapper, 328 pp. Bibliography, indices. 24x16x2 cm. In very good condition. [Categorie: Filosofie] [Auteur: Cummins, Robert.] [Pagina's: 328] [Jaar: 2010] [Titel: The World in the Head.]
