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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812883503321

Autore

Burge Tyler

Titolo

Foundations of mind / / Tyler Burge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-14952-7

9786611149529

0-19-152707-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (509 p.)

Collana

Philosophical essays ; ; 2

Disciplina

128/.2

Soggetti

Philosophy of mind

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-478) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. On Knowledge and Convention (1975)""; ""2. Kaplan, Quine, and Suspended Belief (1977)""; ""3. Belief De Re (1977)""; ""Postscript to “Belief De Re� (2006)""; ""4. Other Bodies (1982)""; ""5. Individualism and the Mental (1979)""; ""Postscript to “Individualism and the Mental� (2006)""; ""6. Two Thought Experiments Reviewed (1982)""; ""7. Cartesian Error and the Objectivity of Perception (1986)""; ""8. Authoritative Self-Knowledge and Perceptual Individualism (1988)""; ""9. Individualism and Psychology (1986)""

""10. Intellectual Norms and Foundations of Mind (1986)""""11. Wherein is Language Social? (1989)""; ""12. Concepts, Definitions, and Meaning (1993)""; ""13. Social Anti-individualism, Objective Reference (2003)""; ""14. Individuation and Causation in Psychology (1989)""; ""15. Intentional Properties and Causation (1995)""; ""16. Mind�Body Causation and Explanatory Practice (1993)""; ""Postscript to “Mind�Body Causation and Explanatory Practice� (2006)""; ""17. Two Kinds of Consciousness (1995 in German, 1997 in English)""; ""18. Reflections on Two Kinds of Consciousness (2006)""

""19. Descartes on Anti-individualism (2003, slightly supplemented 2006)""""20. Philosophy of Mind: 1950�2000 (1992, addenda 2005)""; ""Bibliography""; ""Author Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E"";



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Sommario/riassunto

Foundations of Mind collects the essays which established Tyler Burge as a leading philosopher of mind. This second volume of his papers offers nineteen pieces published between 1975 and 2003, including the influential series that develops anti-individualism. Burge contributes three essay-length postscripts, a substantial new paper on consciousness, and an introduction which surveys his work in this area. The foundations that Burge reflects on are conditions in the individual or the wider world that determine the natures of mental kinds. The conditions include causal, social, psychological con