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Informationen zum Autor P. M. S. Hacker is a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He is the author of numerous books and articles on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language as well as philosophical foundations of cognitive neuroscience, and is the leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Among his many publications is the monumental four-volume Analytical Commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (Wiley-Blackwell, 1991, first two volumes co-authored with G. P. Baker), and its epilogue Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 1996). His work (with Maxwell Bennett) on cognitive neuroscience, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (2003) and History of Cognitive Neuroscience (2008), is renowned. The first volume of his trilogy on human nature, Human Nature: the Categorial Framework , was published in 2007. Klappentext The Intellectual Powers is a philosophical investigation into the cognitive and cogitative powers of mankind. It develops a connective analysis of our powers of consciousness, intentionality, mastery of language, knowledge, belief, certainty, sensation, perception, memory, thought, and imagination, by one of Britain's leading philosophers. It is an essential guide and handbook for philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive neuroscientists.* The culmination of 45 years of reflection on the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the nature of the human person* No other book in epistemology or philosophy of psychology provides such extensive overviews of consciousness, self-consciousness, intentionality, mastery of a language, knowledge, belief, memory, sensation and perception, thought and imagination* Illustrated with tables, tree-diagrams, and charts to provide overviews of the conceptual relationships disclosed by analysis* Written by one of Britain's best philosophical minds* A sequel to Hacker's Human Nature: The Categorial Framework* An essential guide and handbook for all who are working in philosophy of mind, epistemology, psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience Zusammenfassung The Intellectual Powers is a philosophical investigation into the cognitive and cogitative powers of mankind. It presents an overview of consciousness and self-consciousness, of intentionality and of our linguistic capacities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xi Introduction: The Project 1 Prolegomena 9 Chapter 1 Consciousness as the Mark of the Mental 11 1. Consciousness as a mark of modernity 11 2. The genealogy of the concept of consciousness 15 3. The analytic of consciousness 19 4. The early modern philosophical conception of consciousness 33 5. The dialectic of consciousness I 40 6. The contemporary philosophical conception of consciousness 48 7. The dialectic of consciousness II 51 8. The illusions of self-consciousness 57 Chapter 2 Intentionality as the Mark of the Mental 60 1. Intentionality 60 2. Intentional 'objects' 66 3. The central sun: the relation of thought to reality 69 4. The first circle: what do we believe (hope, suspect, etc.)? 82 5. The second circle: the relation of language to reality 87 6. The third circle: the relation of thought to language 91 7. The fourth circle: the epistemology of intentionality 93 8. The fifth circle: meaning and understanding 96 Chapter 3 Mastery of a Language as the Mark of a Mind 101 1. A language-using animal 101 2. Linguistic communication 103 3. Knowing a language 106 4. Meaning something 111 5. Understanding and interpreting 117 6. Meaning and use 121 7. The dialectic of understanding: the 'mystery' of understanding new sentences 136 Part I The Cognitive and Doxastic Powers 145
