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The measure of mind : propositional attitudes and their attribution / Robert J. Matthews.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matthews, Robert J., 1943- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Propositional attitudes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 267 pages)
- Other Title:
- Propositional attitudes and their attribution
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'The Measure of Mind' provides a sustained critique of a widely held view of beliefs, desires, and other 'propositional attitudes', according to which they are representations that play a causal role in the production of thought and behaviour.
- Contents:
- A prospective introduction
- The received view
- Troubles with the received view
- Are propositional attitudes relations?
- Foundations of a measurement-theoretic account of the attitudes
- The basic measurement-theoretic account
- Elaboration and explication of the proposed measurement-theoretic account.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-263) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-161504-8
- 0-19-958553-9
- 1-281-16078-4
- 9786611160784
- 0-19-152629-0
- 1-4356-2147-6
- OCLC:
- 183915516
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