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Category : Philology
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Philological Monographs
Author: A Slim Book about Narrow Content
Author: Gabriel M. A. SegalPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262264563
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A good understanding of the nature of a property requires knowing whether that property is relational or intrinsic. Gabriel Segal's concern is whether certain psychological properties—specifically, those that make up what might be called the "cognitive content" of psychological states—are relational or intrinsic. He claims that content supervenes on microstructure, that is, if two beings are identical with respect to their microstructural properties, then they must be identical with respect to their cognitive contents. Segal's thesis, a version of internalism, is that being in a state with a specific cognitive content does not essentially involve standing in any real relation to anything external. He uses the fact that content locally supervenes on microstructure to argue for the intrinsicness of content. Cognitive content is fully determined by intrinsic, microstructural properties: duplicate a subject in respect to those properties and you duplicate their cognitive contents. The book, written in a clear, engaging style, contains four chapters. The first two argue against the two leading externalist theories. Chapter 3 rejects popular theories that endorse two kinds of content: "narrow" content, which is locally supervenient, and "broad" content, which is not. Chapter 4 defends a radical alternative version of internalism, arguing that narrow content is a variety of ordinary representation, that is, that narrow content is all there is to content. In defending internalism, Segal does not claim to defend a general philosophical theory of content. At this stage, he suggests, it should suffice to cast reasonable doubt on externalism, to motivate internalism, and to provide reasons to believe that good psychology is, or could be, internalist.
Anti-individualism and Knowledge
Author: Jessica BrownPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262524216
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A persuasive monograph that answers the keyepistemological arguments against anti-individualism in thephilosophy of mind.
Philosophical Monographs
Author: Causality, Interpretation, and the Mind
Author: William ChildPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198236255
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
William Child examines two central ideas in the philosophy of mind, and argues that (contrary to what many philosophers have thought) an understanding of the mind can and should include both. These are causalism, the idea that causality plays an essential role in our understanding of the mental; and interpretationism, the idea that we can gain an understanding of belief and desire by considering the ascription of attitudes to people on the basis of what they say and do.
The Lost Histories of Alexander the Great
Author: Lionel Ignacius Cusack PearsonPublisher:
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Category : Greek literature, Hellenistic
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Pataphilology
Author: Vincent W. J. van Gerven OeiPublisher: punctum books
ISBN: 1947447815
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
What do the bizzare etymologies of Jean-Pierre Brisset, made-up languages for literary fiction, The Dialectic of Enlightenment, Latin grammarians, Horace's Epodes, and the Papyrus of Ani have in common? Nothing! Taken together they provide an unusually coherent picture of a hitherto unacknowledged non-tradition of linguistic investigation. If pataphysics is the science of the singular, the unparallelled, the exception that has no rule, pataphilology is what gets it there, the singularity of singularities. It is the mode in which exceptions become exceptional, itself an unrepeatable intervention in the language. - Back cover.
Nietzsche and Metaphysics
Author: Peter PoellnerPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 9780198250630
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Peter Poellner offers a comprehensive interpretation and a detailed critical assessment of Nietzsche's later ideas on epistemology and metaphysics, drawing on his published works and his largely unpublished voluminous notebooks.
Words Without Meaning
Author: Christopher GaukerPublisher: Christopher Gauker
ISBN: 0262072424
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A critique of, and alternative to, the received view of linguistic communication.
Author: Henry R. Immerwahr