The world in the head / / Robert Cummins
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| Autore: |
Cummins Robert <1944->
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| Titolo: |
The world in the head / / Robert Cummins
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (339 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 128.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mental representation |
| Philosophy of mind | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; 1. What is it Like to be a Computer?; 2. The LOT of the Causal Theory of Mental Content; 3. Systematicity; 4. Systematicity and the Cognition of Structured Domains; 5. Methodological Reflections on Belief; 6. Inexplicit Information; 7. Representation and Indication; 8. Representation and Unexploited Content; 9. Haugeland on Representation and Intentionality; 10. Truth and Meaning; 11. Meaning and Content in Cognitive Science; 12. Representational Specialization: The Synthetic A Priori Revisited; 13. Biological Preparedness and Evolutionary Explanation |
| 14. Cognitive Evolutionary Psychology Without Representational Nativism15. Connectionism and the Rationale Constraint on Cognitive Explanation; 16. 'How does it Work?' vs. 'What are the Laws?': Two Conceptions of Psychological Explanation; Bibliography; Name Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The World in the Head collects the best of Robert Cummins' papers on mental representation and psychological explanation. Running through these papers are a pair of themes: that explaining the mind requires functional analysis, not subsumption under ""psychological laws"", and that the propositional attitudes--belief, desire, intention--and their interactions, while real, are not the key to understanding the mind at a fundamental level. Taking these ideas seriously putsconsiderable strain on standard conceptions of rationality and reasoning, on truth-conditional semantics, and on our interpret |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The world in the head |
| ISBN: | 0-19-160946-3 |
| 0-19-180983-7 | |
| 1-282-46581-3 | |
| 9786612465819 | |
| 0-19-157291-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813253003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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