| What Minds Can Do Contributor(s): Jacob, Pierre (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521574013 ISBN-13: 9780521574013 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Humanism - Philosophy | Mind & Body |
| Dewey: 128.2 |
| LCCN: 96014157 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.20 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Some of a person's mental states have the power to represent real and imagined states of affairs: they have semantic properties. What Minds Can Do has two goals: to find a naturalistic or nonsemantic basis for the representational powers of a person's mind, and to show that these semantic properties are involved in the causal explanation of the person's behavior. In the process, the book addresses issues that are central to much contemporary philosophical debate. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy of mind and of language, cognitive science, and psychology. |