The 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cummins, Robert (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press 2010.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario: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 putsconsiderable strain on standard conceptions of rationality and reasoning, on truth-conditional semantics, and on our i.
Descripción Física:x, 328 p. : il
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [311]-320) e índice.
ISBN:9780191572913
9780199548033