ISBN: 9780191572913

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 explainin… More...

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 ideasseriously 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 mentalstates 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 an accelerating biology and neuroscience are telling us about brains. The challenge for the philosophy of mind is to devise a framework that accommodates these developments. This is the underlying motivation for the papers in thiscollection. World in the Head: 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 ideasseriously 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 mentalstates 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 an accelerating biology and neuroscience are telling us about brains. The challenge for the philosophy of mind is to devise a framework that accommodates these developments. This is the underlying motivation for the papers in thiscollection., OUP Oxford<

ISBN: 9780191572913

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… More...

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 ideasseriously 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 mentalstates 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 an accelerating biology and neuroscience are telling us about brains.The challenge for the philosophy of mind is to devise a framework that accommodates these developments.This is the underlying motivation for the papers in thiscollection.; PDF; Politics, Philosphy & Religion > Philosophy, OUP Oxford<

ISBN: 9780191572913

Robert Cummins presents a series of essays motivated by the following question: Is the mind a collection of beliefs and desires that respond to and condition our feeling and perceptual ex… More...

Robert Cummins presents a series of essays motivated by the following question: Is the mind a collection of beliefs and desires that respond to and condition our feeling and perceptual experiences, or is this just a natural way to talk about it?What sort of conceptual framework do we need to understand what is really going on in our brains?; PDF; Politics, Philosphy & Religion > Philosophy > Philosophy of mind, OUP Oxford<

2010, ISBN: 9780191572913

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2010, ISBN: 9780191572913

eBook Download (PDF), eBooks, [PU: OUP Oxford]