Mind's Provisions (eBook)

A Critique of Cognitivism

Vincent Descombes (Autor)

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2021
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3248-4 (ISBN)

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Vincent Descombes brings together an astonishingly large body of philosophical and anthropological thought to present a thoroughgoing critique of contemporary cognitivism and to develop a powerful new philosophy of the mind.Beginning with a critical examination of American cognitivism and French structuralism, Descombes launches a more general critique of all philosophies that view the mind in strictly causal terms and suppose that the brain--and not the person--thinks. Providing a broad historical perspective, Descombes draws surprising links between cognitivism and earlier anthropological projects, such as Levi-Strauss's work on the symbolic status of myths. He identifies as incoherent both the belief that mental states are detached from the world and the idea that states of mind are brain states; these assumptions beg the question of the relation between mind and brain.In place of cognitivism, Descombes offers an anthropologically based theory of mind that emphasizes the mind's collective nature. Drawing on Wittgenstein, he maintains that mental acts are properly attributed to the person, not the brain, and that states of mind, far from being detached from the world, require a historical and cultural context for their very intelligibility.Available in English for the first time, this is the most outstanding work of one of France's finest contemporary philosophers. It provides a much-needed link between the continental and Anglo-American traditions, and its impact will extend beyond philosophy to anthropology, psychology, critical theory, and French studies.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.8.2021
• Reihe/Serie: New French Thought Series
• Reihe/Serie: New French Thought Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Absolute Idealism • Achilles' heel • Adult • American Philosophy • Anachronism • Analogy • Anecdote • anthony kenny • anthropologist • Antihumanism • Antinomy • Aristotelianism • Aristotle • Automaton • Axiom • Behavior • bookkeeping • Brain in a vat • Brute fact • Calculation • Causal chain • Causality • Cerebrum • Chinese Room • Cognition • Cognitive Psychology • Cognitivism (psychology) • Computation • Concept • conceptual model • concurrence • Conflation • Consciousness • Contemporary Philosophy • conventional wisdom • copying • critique • Dan Sperber • Database • Deductive Reasoning • Denis Diderot • Direct and indirect realism • Dissociation (psychology) • dividend • Domestic worker • Edmund Husserl • Effectiveness • electricity • Empiricism • Enumeration • Essay • Existence • Explanation • Explanatory Model • Externality • Falsity • Feeling • Foreign policy of the United States • formality • Formal ontology • Form of life (philosophy) • freedom of speech • French Philosophy • Functionalism (philosophy of mind) • Genre • Good and evil • Hilary Putnam • Holism • hypothesis • idealism • Imagination • Indication (medicine) • Individuation • Institut de France • insurance law • intellectualization • Intelligent agent • Intelligibility (philosophy) • Intention • intentionality • Intersubjectivity • Invention • Irrationality • Jerry Fodor • John Searle • Linguistic Philosophy • Linguistics • Linguistic turn • Loaded language • Luc Ferry • mad scientist • Marshall Plan • Materialism • Mental operations • Mental representation • Methodological solipsism • monism • Nachlass • naivety • Natural kind • Natural science • Net income • Objectivity (philosophy) • obstacle • Opportunism • Ordinary Language Philosophy • Parapsychology • Pascal Engel • Payment • Persuasion • phenomenon • Philosopher • philosophical analysis • philosophical fiction • Philosophy • Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche • Philosophy of mind • Phrase (music) • Physicalism • Political Philosophy • Positivism • Positivist school (criminology) • pre-established harmony • Presupposition • Principle • Psychologism • Psychology • Psychophysical parallelism • radical translation • Rationalism • Rationality • Reality • reason • referent • Reflexology • Relativism • Requirement • Research and Development • research associate • result • Scythians • Semantic holism • Social Science • Society • Socioeconomic Status • Sociology • Solipsism • Soul and Body • State of affairs (philosophy) • Structural anthropology • subject (philosophy) • Suggestion • Supervenience • Suspension of Disbelief • Symbolic Computation • Symptom • Tacit Knowledge • Tautology (rhetoric) • Teleology • theory • The Philosopher • The Rules of Sociological Method • The Various • Thought • Train of Thought • transcendental arguments • turing test • Umwelt • unconscious mind • Understanding • Verb • verificationism • visual perception • Vocational school
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3248-9 / 1400832489
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3248-4 / 9781400832484