Saving Belief (eBook)

A Critique of Physicalism

Lynne Rudder Baker (Autor)

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2017
192 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8693-7 (ISBN)

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This stimulating book critically examines a wide range of physicalistic conceptions of mind in the works of Jerry A. Fodor, Stephen P. Stich, Paul M. Churchland, Daniel C. Dennett, and others. Part I argues that intentional concepts cannot be reduced to nonintentional (and nonsemantic) concepts; Part II argues that intentional concepts are nevertheless indispensable to our cognitive enterprises and thus need no foundation in physicalism. As a sustained challenge to the prevailing interpretation of cognitive science, this timely book fills a large gap in the philosophical literature. It is sure to spark controversy, yet its clarity makes it attractive as a text in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Saving Belief should be read by philosophers, psychologists, and others interested in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.3.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Schlagworte: Ambiguity • Analogy • aphorism • appearance and reality • arbitrariness • Ascription • Basic science (psychology) • Begging the Question • Behavior • Brain in a vat • Causal chain • Causality • Code word (figure of speech) • cognitive science • Concept • Conjecture (textual criticism) • counterexample • Criticism • critique • Deductive Reasoning • Disposition • eliminative materialism • Equivocation • Essay • Explanation • False attribution • Falsity • Folk Psychology • formality • Functionalism (philosophy of mind) • Hilary Putnam • hypothesis • idealization • Individualism • Individuation • inductive reasoning • inference • Instrumentalism • Intelligibility (philosophy) • Intention • intentionality • Intentional Stance • introspection • Inverted spectrum • Mad pain and Martian pain • Materialism • Mental operations • Mental representation • Metaphor • Methodological solipsism • multiple realizability • Natural kind • natural language • Ned Block • Observation • Paradox • pessimism • phenomenalism • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophy of Language • Philosophy of mind • Physicalism • predictive power • Presupposition • Principle • problem of induction • propositional attitude • Psychology • Rationalism • Rationality • Reality • reason • Received view • Reductio ad absurdum • scientific realism • scientific theory • Sciousness • Semantic property • Semantics • Simultaneity • skepticism • Solipsism • State of affairs (philosophy) • Suggestion • Supervenience • Symptom • Teleology • The Foundations of Psychoanalysis • theory • Theory of Mind • Thought • Thought experiment • Truth • Truth condition • Turing Machine • Twin Earth thought experiment • utterance • vagueness • Wilfrid Sellars
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8693-7 / 1400886937
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8693-7 / 9781400886937