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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Heal, Jane
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Series:Cambridge studies in philosophy.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • pt. I. Mind, theory and imagination. Replication and functionalism
  • Understanding other minds from the inside
  • Simulation, theory and content
  • Simulation and cognitive penetrability
  • pt. II. Thought and reason. Co-cognition and off-line simulation : two ways of understanding the simulation approach
  • Semanitic holism : still a good buy
  • Other minds, rationality and analogy
  • pt. III. Indexical predicates and their applications. Indexical predicates and their uses
  • On speaking thus : the semantics of indirect discourse
  • Lagadonian kinds and psychological concepts
  • pt. IV. Thinking of minds and interacting with persons. What are psychological concepts for?
  • Moore's paradox : a Wittgensteinian approach
  • On first-person authority.