Nicht aus der Schweiz? Besuchen Sie lehmanns.de
The Measure of Mind - Robert J. Matthews

The Measure of Mind

Propositional Attitudes and their Attribution
Buch | Softcover
278 Seiten
2010
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-958553-3 (ISBN)
CHF 67,95 inkl. MwSt
Robert Matthews provides a critique of widely held beliefs, desires, and other 'propositional attitudes', according to which they are representations that play a causal role in the production of thought and behaviour. He develops an alternative measurement-theoretic account of propositional attitudes and the sentences by which we attribute them.
The Measure of Mind provides a sustained critique of a widely held representationalist view of propositional attitudes and their role in the production of thought and behaviour. On this view, having a propositional attitude is a matter of having an explicit representation that plays a particular causal/computational role in the production of thought and behaviour. Robert J. Matthews argues that this view does not enjoy the theoretical or the empirical support that proponents claim for it; moreover, it misconstrues the role of propositional attitude attributions in cognitive scientific theorizing. He then goes on to develop an alternative measurement-theoretic account of propositional attitudes and the sentences by which we attribute them. On this account, the sentences by which we attribute propositional attitudes function semantically like the sentences by which we attribute a quantity of some physical magnitude (e.g., having a mass of 80 kilos). That is, in much the same way that we specify a quantity of some physical magnitude by means of its numerical representative on a measurement scale, we specify propositional attitudes by means of their representatives in a linguistically-defined measurement space.
Matthews argues that, unlike the representationalist view, his account of propositional attitudes draws a clear distinction between propositional attitudes and our natural language representations of them, and does not presume that salient properties of the latter can simply be read back onto the former. On his view, propositional attitudes turn out to be causally efficacious aptitudes for thought and behaviour, and not mental entities of some sort. In defending this approach, Matthews provides a plausible account both of the standard philosophical puzzles about propositional attitudes, and of the role of propositional attitude attributions in cognitive scientific theorizing.

Robert Matthews is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University

PART ONE: THE RECEIVED VIEW AND ITS TROUBLES; PART TWO: A MEASUREMENT-THEORETIC ACCOUNT OF PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDES AND THEIR ATTRIBUTION

Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 233 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10 0-19-958553-9 / 0199585539
ISBN-13 978-0-19-958553-3 / 9780199585533
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
Macht und Legitimität politischer Sprache im Prozess der europäischen …

von Mariano Barbato

Buch | Softcover (2023)
Nomos (Verlag)
CHF 103,60
Wie die Menschheit zu ihrer größten Erfindung kam

von Guy Deutscher

Buch | Softcover (2022)
C.H.Beck (Verlag)
CHF 25,20