The world in the head / by Robert Cummins.
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TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (x, 328 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780191572913
- 0191572918
- 9780199548033
- 019954803X
- 9780191809835
- 0191809837
- 153 22
- BF316.6 .C86 2010eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-320) and index.
The World in the Head collects the best of Robert Cummins' papers on mental representation and psychological explanation. Running through these papers are a pair of themes: that explaining the mind requires functional analysis, not subsumption under "psychological laws", and that the propositional attitudes--belief, desire, intention--and their interactions, while real, are not the key to understanding the mind at a fundamental level. Taking these ideas seriously putsconsiderable strain on standard conceptions of rationality and reasoning, on truth-conditional semantics, and on our i.
1. What is it Like to be a Computer?; 2. The LOT of the Causal Theory of Mental Content; 3. Systematicity; 4. Systematicity and the Cognition of Structured Domains; 5. Methodological Reflections on Belief; 6. Inexplicit Information; 7. Representation and Indication; 8. Representation and Unexploited Content; 9. Haugeland on Representation and Intentionality; 10. Truth and Meaning; 11. Meaning and Content in Cognitive Science; 12. Representational Specialization: The Synthetic A Priori Revisited; 13. Biological Preparedness and Evolutionary Explanation.
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