Preston Stovall

The Single-Minded Animal (eBook, PDF)

Shared Intentionality, Normativity, and the Foundations of Discursive Cognition

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an account of discursive or reason-governed cognition by synthesizing research in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and evolutionary anthropology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000434002
• Artikelnr.: 62441165

Autorenporträt

Preston Stovall is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy and Social Science at the University of Hradec Králové. He received his B.A. from Montana State University, his M.A. from Texas A&M University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He works in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and metaphysics, informed by a reading of the German idealists and the American pragmatists.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Rationality, Autonomy, and Shared Intentionality
Part I
1. The Lamp of Reason and the Mirror of Nature
2. Evolutionary Anthropology and Shared Practical Picturing
3. Deontic Picturing and Obedience to Linguistic Norms
Part II
4. Discursive Deontic Cognition
5. Understanding What We Ought and Shall Do
6. From the Grunts and Groans of the Cave to the Light of Discursive
Cognition: Climbing Jones's Ladder
7. On the Scientific Image of the Foundations of Discursive Cognition
Part III
8. Discursive and Nondiscursive Cognition: Questions of Conceptual and
Ontological Priority
9. Comparing Plan-Conditional World-Mind Expressions of Shared
Intentionality with Truth-Conditional Mind-World Representations of Shared
Intentionality
10. The Power of Spirit
Conclusion: Systematic and Edifying Philosophy Reconsidered