LEADER 05293nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910141834103321 005 20240314010544.0 010 $a1-118-60906-9 010 $a1-118-60903-4 010 $a1-118-60905-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000392037 035 $a(EBL)1251406 035 $a(OCoLC)847532555 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000917517 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11956880 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000917517 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10911335 035 $a(PQKB)10777771 035 $a(OCoLC)857070580 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1251406 035 $a(DLC) 2013022957 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1251406 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10731778 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL504415 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000392037 100 $a20150303d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe intellectual powers $ea study of human nature /$fP. M. S. Hacker 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChichester, West Sussex, U.K. $cWiley-Blackwell$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (491 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4443-3247-3 311 $a1-118-65121-9 327 $aCover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Project; Prolegomena; 1: Consciousness as the Mark of the Mental; 1. Consciousness as a mark of modernity; 2. The genealogy of the concept of consciousness; 3. The analytic of consciousness; 4. The early modern philosophical conception of consciousness; 5. The dialectic of consciousness I; 6. The contemporary philosophical conception of consciousness; 7. The dialectic of consciousness II; 8. The illusions of self-consciousness; 2: Intentionality as the Mark of the Mental; 1. Intentionality; 2. Intentional 'objects' 327 $a3. The central sun: the relation of thought to reality 4. The first circle: what do we believe (hope, suspect, etc.)?; 5. The second circle: the relation of language to reality; 6. The third circle: the relation of thought to language; 7. The fourth circle: the epistemology of intentionality; 8. The fifth circle: meaning and understanding; 3: Mastery of a Language as the Mark of a Mind; 1. A language-using animal; 2. Linguistic communication; 3. Knowing a language; 4. Meaning something; 5. Understanding and interpreting; 6. Meaning and use 327 $a7. The dialectic of understanding: the 'mystery' of understanding new sentences PART I: The Cognitive and Doxastic Powers; 4: Knowledge; 1. The value of knowledge; 2. The grammatical groundwork; 3. The semantic field; 4. What knowledge is not; 5. Certainty; 6. Analyses of knowledge; 7. Knowledge and ability; 8. Knowing-how; 9. What is knowledge? The role of 'know' in human discourse; 5: Belief; 1. The web of belief; 2. The grammatical groundwork; 3. The surrounding landscape; 4. Voluntariness and responsibility for belief; 5. Belief and feelings; 6. Belief and dispositions 327 $a7. Belief and mental states 8. Why believing something cannot be a brain state; 9. What is belief? The role of 'believe' in human discourse; 6: Knowledge, Belief and the Epistemology of Belief; 1. Knowledge and belief; 2. The epistemology of belief; 3. Non-standard cases: self-deception and unconscious beliefs; 7: Sensation and Perception; 1. The cognitive powers of the senses; 2. Sensation; 3. Perception and sensation; 4. Sensation, feeling and tactile perception; 8: Perception; 1. Perceptual organs, the senses and proper sensibles; 2. Perceptual powers: cognition and volition 327 $a3. The classical causal theory of perception 4. The modern causal theory of perception; 9: Memory; 1. Memory as a form of knowledge; 2. The objects of memory; 3. The faculty and its actualities; 4. Forms of memory; 5. Further conceptual links and contrasts; 6. The dialectic of memory I: the Aristotelian legacy; 7. The dialectic of memory II: trace theory; PART II: The Cogitative Powers; 10: Thought and Thinking; 1. Floundering without an overview; 2. The varieties of thinking; 3. Is thinking an activity?; 4. What do we think in?; 5. Thought, language and the language of thought 327 $a6. Can animals think? 330 $aThe Intellectual Powers is a philosophical investigation into the cognitive and cogitative powers of mankind. It develops a connective analysis of our powers of consciousness, intentionality, mastery of language, knowledge, belief, certainty, sensation, perception, memory, thought, and imagination, by one of Britain's leading philosophers. It is an essential guide and handbook for philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive neuroscientists. The culmination of 45 years of reflection on the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the nature of the human person 606 $aPhilosophical anthropology 606 $aPhilosophy of mind 606 $aThought and thinking 615 0$aPhilosophical anthropology. 615 0$aPhilosophy of mind. 615 0$aThought and thinking. 676 $a128/.3 700 $aHacker$b P. M. S$g(Peter Michael Stephan)$0896786 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910141834103321 996 $aThe intellectual powers$92133650 997 $aUNINA