The world in the head / Robert Cummins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cummins, Robert, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental representation.

Philosophy of mind.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 interpret

Contents:

Contents; 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

14. Cognitive Evolutionary Psychology Without Representational Nativism15. Connectionism and the Rationale Constraint on Cognitive Explanation; 16. 'How does it Work?' vs. 'What are the Laws?': Two Conceptions of Psychological Explanation; Bibliography; Name Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-160946-3

0-19-180983-7

1-282-46581-3

9786612465819

0-19-157291-8

OCLC:

536370649