Explaining Attitudes - A Practical Approach to the Mind

Informationen zum Autor Lynne Rudder Baker is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Explaining Attitudes (Cambridge University Press, 1995), Persons and Bodies (Cambridge University Press, 2000), The Metaphysics of Everyday Life (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Saving Belief (1987). Zusammenfassung Explaining Attitudes develops an account of propositional attitudes - practical realism. Practical realism is an antidote to the now-dominant 'Standard View'! according to which beliefs! if there are any! are identical to or are constituted by brain states. Practical realism takes beliefs to be states of whole persons! rather like states of health. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Standard View and its Problems: 1. Two conceptions of the attitudes; 2. Content and causation; 3. The myth of folk psychology; Part II. Explanation in Theory and Practice: 4. On standards of explanatory adequacy; 5. How beliefs explain; Part III. Practical Realism and its Prospects: 6. Belief without reification; 7. Mind and metaphysics; 8. Practical realism writ large.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Lynne Rudder Baker, Baker Lynne Rudder
• Collaboration: Ernest Sosa (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 27.01.1995
• EAN: 9780521421904
• ISBN: 978-0-521-42190-4
• Pages: 264
• Thèmes: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: de l'Antiquité à nos jours; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie > Général, dictionnaires; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge