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Mind, reason, and imagination : selected essays in philosophy of mind and language /
Recent philosophy of mind has had a mistaken conception of the nature of psychological concepts. It has assumed too much similarity between psychological judgments and those of natural science and has thus overlooked the fact that other people are not just objects whose thoughts we may try to predic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Recent philosophy of mind has had a mistaken conception of the nature of psychological concepts. It has assumed too much similarity between psychological judgments and those of natural science and has thus overlooked the fact that other people are not just objects whose thoughts we may try to predict and control but fellow creatures with whom we talk and co-operate. In this collection of essays, Jane Heal argues that central to our ability to arrive at views about others' thoughts is not knowledge of some theory of the mind but rather an ability to imagine alternative worlds and how things appear from another person's point of view. She then applies this view to questions of how we represent others' thoughts, the shape of psychological concepts, the nature of rationality and the possibility of first person authority. This book should appeal to students and professionals in philosophy of mind and language. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 302 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-295) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511615894 0511615892 0511061080 9780511061080 0521816971 9780521816977 1280420138 9781280420139 9780521017169 0521017165 |