Intentional Implications - The Impact of a Reduction of Mind on Philosophy

This book is an examination of the implications of a mature Humean-Sartrean analysis of mind, including its impact on perception, personal identity, weakness of the will, and cognitivism. Contents: INTRODUCTION; TERMS; Identity; Existence; Knowledge; Paradigmatic Uses of Material Identity; Qualities; Universals; Indiscernibility; Substance; Change; AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; PERSONAL IDENTITY; THE GIVEN; Theory Neutral Observations; Logical Entailments of the Absence of a Given; Materialism; THE DREAM ARGUMENT; AKRASIA; The Problem; The Nature of Desiring; COGNITIVISM; APPENDICES.

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By Daniel B. Barwick

Summary

Examines the implications of a mature Humean-Sartrean analysis of mind, including its impact on perception, personal identity, weakness of the will, and cognitivism.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Barwick, Daniel B Barwick, Daniel B. Barwick
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.1994
• EAN: 9780819195159
• ISBN: 978-0-8191-9515-9
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 215 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 186 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophiegeschichte, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy