Postures of the mind : essays on mind and morals / Annette Baier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baier, Annette.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Intellect.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 314 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Postures of the Mind was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Annette Baier develops, in these essays, a posture in philosophy of mind and in ethics that grows out of her reading of Hume and the later Wittgenstein, and that challenges several Kantian or analytic articles of faith.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Part I. Varieties of Mental Postures; 1 Mixing Memory and Desire; 2 Realizing What's What; 3 Intention, Practical Knowledge, and Representation; 4 Mind and Change of Mind; 5 Cartesian Persons; 6 Caring about Caring: A Reply to Frankfurt; 7 Actions, Passions, and Reasons; Part II. Varieties of Moral Postures; 8 Knowing Our Place in the Animal World; 9 Frankena and Hume on Points of View; 10 Promises, Promises, Promises; 11 Theory and Reflective Practices; 12 Doing without Moral Theory?; 13 Civilizing Practices; 14 Poisoning the Wells; 15 Secular Faith; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5548-0

0-8166-1327-3

OCLC:

182732657