On the edge of certainty : philosophical explorations / Raymond Tallis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tallis, Raymond.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy of mind.

Physical Description:

xvii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Summary:

In earlier work, Raymond Tallis defends the distinctive nature of human consciousness against the misrepresentations of many philosophers and cognitive scientists who aimed to reduce it to a set of functions understood in evolutionary, neurobiological, and computational terms. This book continues to investigate these implications of human nature advanced in his earlier works for our understanding of the nature of truth, of language, of the mind, and of the self.

Contents:

1 Explicitness and Truth (and Falsehood) 1

2 A Critical Dictionary of Neuromythology 71

3 The Poverty of Neurophilosophy 127

4 (That) I Am This (Thing): Reflections on Deixis, Explicitness and the Tautology of the Self 155

5 On the Edge of Certainty 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312224168

OCLC:

187493831