Carrie Figdor

Pieces of Mind

The Proper Domain of Psychological Predicates

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Produktbeschreibung

Carrie Figdor presents a critical assessment of how psychological terms are used to describe the non-human biological world. She argues against the anthropocentric attitude which takes human cognition as the standard against which non-human capacities are measured, and offers an alternative basis for naturalistic explanation of the mind.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 149mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780198809524
• ISBN-10: 0198809522
• Artikelnr.: 50907706

Autorenporträt

Carrie Figdor is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in The Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Mind & Language, Frontiers in Communication, and other leading scholarly journals. Her main philosophical interests are in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. A former newswoman with The Associated Press, she also writes on issues in science communication.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Cases: Qualitative Analogy
3: Cases: Quantitative Analogy
4: Literalism: An Initial Defense
5: The Nonsense View
6: The Metaphor View
7: The Technical View
8: Literalism and Mechanistic Explanation
9: Literalism and Moral Status
10: Concluding Summary