Giving a damn : essays in dialogue with John Haugeland / edited by Zed Adams and Jacob Browning.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adams, Zed, editor.

Browning, Jacob, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy of mind.

Haugeland, John, 1945-2010.

Haugeland, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 373 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

Summary:

A collection of essays that use John Haugeland's work on intentionality, embodiment, objectivity, and caring to explore contemporary issues in philosophy of mind.

"In his work, the philosopher John Haugeland (1945-2010) proposed a radical expansion of philosophy's conceptual toolkit, calling for a wider range of resources for understanding the mind, the world, and how they relate. Haugeland argued that 'giving a damn' is essential for having a mind-suggesting that traditional approaches to cognitive science mistakenly overlook the relevance of caring to the understanding of mindedness. Haugeland's determination to expand philosophy's array of concepts led him to write on a wide variety of subjects that may seem unrelated--from topics in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to examinations of such figures as Martin Heidegger and Thomas Kuhn. Haugeland's two books with the MIT Press, Artificial Intelligence and Mind Design, show the range of his interests. This book offers a collection of essays in conversation with Haugeland's work. The essays, by prominent scholars, extend Haugeland's work on a range of contemporary topics in philosophy of mind--from questions about intentionality to issues concerning objectivity and truth to the work of Heidegger. Giving a Damn also includes a previously unpublished paper by Haugeland, 'Two dogmas of rationalism, ' as well as critical responses to it. Finally, an appendix offers Haugeland's outline of Kant's 'Transcendental deduction of the categories'"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction / Zed Adams and Jacob Browning

I: Heideggerian themes. Anonymity, mineness, and agent specificity: Pragmatic normativity and the authentic situation in Heidegger's Being and time / William Blattner

Competence over being as existing: The indispensability of Haugeland's Heidegger / Steven Crowell

Ostension and assertion / Rebecca Kukla

Love and death / Joseph Rouse

II: Embodiment. Language embodied and embedded: Walking the talk / Mark Lance

Being minded / Danielle Macbeth

III: Intentionality. Truth, objectivity, and emotional caring: Filling in the gaps of Haugeland's existentialist ontology / Bennett W. Helm

Constancy mechanisms and the normativity of perception / Zed Adams and Chauncey Maher

Recording and representing, analog and digital / John Kulvicki

IV: Two dogmas of rationalism. Two dogmas of rationalism / John Haugeland

Rationalism without dogmas / John McDowell

"Two dogmas of rationalism": A second encounter / Mark Lance

Appendix: The transcendental deduction of the categories / John Haugeland.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-33586-7

0-262-33585-9

OCLC:

966910444