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A Slim Book about Narrow Content
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

A Slim Book about Narrow Content

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-06-02
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

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...

Addiction and Choice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 529

Addiction and Choice

  • Categories: Law

Views on addiction are often polarised - either addiction is a matter of choice, or addicts simply can't help themselves. But perhaps addiction falls between the two? This book contains views from philosophy, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and the law exploring this middle ground between free choice and no choice.

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 918

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-11-29
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  • Publisher: OUP UK

A guide to today's most exciting research in academic philosophy with more than 30 distinguished scholars to contribute incisive and up-to-date critical surveys of the principal areas of research.

Knowledge of Meaning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 639

Knowledge of Meaning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Mit Press

Many textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history. It provides the only introduction to truth-theoretic semantics for natural languages, fully integrating semantic theory into the modern Chomskyan programme in linguistic theory and connecting linguistic semantics to research elsewhere in cognitive psychology and philosophy. As such, it better fits into a modern graduate or undergraduate programme in linguistics, cognitive science, or philosophy. Furthermore, since the technical tools it employs are much simpler to teach and to master, Knowledge of Meaning can be taught by someone who is not primarily a semanticist.

So Many Books
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 146

So Many Books

"Gabriel Zaid's defense of books is genuinely exhilarating. It is not pious, it is wise; and its wisdom is delivered with extraordinary lucidity and charm. This is how Montaigne would have written about the dizzy and increasingly dolorous age of the Internet. May So Many Books fall into so many hands."—Leon Wieseltier "Reading liberates the reader and transports him from his book to a reading of himself and all of life. It leads him to participate in conversations, and in some cases to arrange them…It could even be said that to publish a book is to insert it into the middle of a conversation."—from So Many Books Join the conversation! In So Many Books, Gabriel Zaid offers his observati...

A Slim Book about Narrow Content
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 177

A Slim Book about Narrow Content

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 anythi...

Broken Alliance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

Broken Alliance

Index. Bibliographical notes: p. 285-300.

Theories of Theories of Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 422

Theories of Theories of Mind

A state of the art survey of debate within philosophy of mind, developmental psychology, the aetiology of autism and primatology.

Boundaries of the Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Boundaries of the Mind

This 2004 book provides the foundations for the view that the mind extends beyond the boundary of the individual.

Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 645

Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind

A timely collection of debates concerning the major themes and topics in philosophy of mind, fully updated with new topics covering the latest developments in the field Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind provides a lively and engaging introduction to the conceptual background, ongoing debates, and contentious issues in the field today. Original essays by more than 30 of the discipline’s most influential thinkers offer opposing perspectives on a series of contested questions regarding mental content, physicalism, the place of consciousness in the physical world, and the nature of perception and mental capacities. Written to appeal to non-specialists and professional philosophers ali...