Perception, Knowledge and Belief - Selected Essays

Zusammenfassung This collection of essays by eminent philosopher Fred Dretske brings together work on the theory of knowledge and philosophy of mind spanning thirty years. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Knowledge: 1. Conclusive reasons; 2. Epistemic operators; 3. The pragmatic dimension of knowledge; 4. The epistemology of belief; 5. Two conceptions of knowledge: rational vs. reliable belief; Part II. Perception and Experience: 6. Simple seeing; 7. Conscious experience; 8. Differences that make no difference; 9. The mind's awareness of itself; 10. What good is consciousness; Part III. Thought and Intentionality: 11. Putting information to work; 12. If you can't make one, you don't know how it works; 13. The nature of thought; 14. Norms and the constitution of the mental; 15. Minds, machines, and money: what really explains behavior.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Fred Dretske, Fred I. Dretske
• Mitarbeit: Jonathan Dancy (Herausgeber), Ernest Sosa (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.02.2000
• EAN: 9780521777421
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77742-1
• Seiten: 300
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism