Robert Cummins

The World in the Head

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert Cummins presents a series of essays motivated by the following question: Is the mind a collection of beliefs and desires that respond to and condition our feeling and perceptual experiences, or is this just a natural way to talk about it? What sort of conceptual framework do we need to understand what is really going on in our brains?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780199548040
• ISBN-10: 0199548048
• Artikelnr.: 52405598

Autorenporträt

Robert Cummins is Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Preface
* 1: What it is like to be a computer
* 2: The LOT of the causal theory of mental content
* 3: Systematicity
* 4: Systematicity and the cognition of the structured domains with Jim
Blackmon, David Byrd, Pierre Poirier, Martin Roth, and Georg Schwarz
* 5: Methodological reflections on belief
* 6: Inexplicit information
* 7: Representation and indication with Pierre Poirier
* 8: Representation and unexploited content with Jim Blackmon, David
Byrd, Alexa Lee, and Martin Roth
* 9: Haugeland on representation and intentionality
* 10: Truth and meaning
* 11: Meaning and content in cognitive science with Martin Roth
* 12: Representational specialization: the synthetic a priori revisited
* 13: Biological preparedness and evolutionary explanation with Denise
Dellarosa Cummins
* 14: Cognitive evolutionary psychology without representational
nativism
* 15: Connectionism and the rationale constraint on cognitive
explanation
* 16: 'How does it work?' vs. 'What are the laws?': Two conceptions of
psychological explanation