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Zusatztext a comprehensive, sophisticatedly argued, and empirically well-informed critique ... unquestionably an important and impressive work in the philosophy and psychology of perception. Its scope is large, its thesis novel and wideranging in import, and its critical assessments of competing theories insightful and Informationen zum Autor Tyler Burge is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Truth, Thought, Reason: Essays on Frege (OUP, 2005) and Foundations of Mind (OUP, 2007). Klappentext Tyler Burge presents an original study of the most primitive ways in which individuals represent the physical world. By reflecting on the science of perception and related psychological and biological sciences, he gives an account of constitutive conditions for perceiving the physical world, and thus aims to locate origins of representational mind. Zusammenfassung Tyler Burge presents an original study of the most primitive ways in which individuals represent the physical world. By reflecting on the science of perception and related psychological and biological sciences, he gives an account of constitutive conditions for perceiving the physical world, and thus aims to locate origins of representational mind. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Part I 1: Introduction 2: Basic Terminology: What the Questions Mean 3: Anti-Individualism Part II 4: Individual Representationalism in the Twentieth Century's First Half 5: Individual Representationalism after Mid-Century: Preliminaries 6: Neo-Kantian Individual Representationalism: Strawson and Evans 7: Language Interpretation and Individual Representationalism: Quine and Davidson Part III 8: Biological and Methodological Backgrounds 9: Origins 10: Origins of Some Representational Categories 11: Glimpses Forward
