Mind, reason, and imagination : selected essays in philosophy of mind and language / Jane Heal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heal, Jane, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in philosophy.

Cambridge studies in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy of mind.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Mind, Reason & Imagination

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recent philosophy of mind has had a mistaken conception of the nature of psychological concepts. It has assumed too much similarity between psychological judgments and those of natural science and has thus overlooked the fact that other people are not just objects whose thoughts we may try to predict and control but fellow creatures with whom we talk and co-operate. In this collection of essays, Jane Heal argues that central to our ability to arrive at views about others' thoughts is not knowledge of some theory of the mind but rather an ability to imagine alternative worlds and how things appear from another person's point of view. She then applies this view to questions of how we represent others' thoughts, the shape of psychological concepts, the nature of rationality and the possibility of first person authority. This book should appeal to students and professionals in philosophy of mind and language.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Sources; 1 Introduction; 2 Replication and Functionalism; 3 Understanding Other Minds from the Inside; 4 Simulation, Theory and Content; 5 Simulation and Cognitive Penetrability; 6 Co-Cognition and Off-Line Simulation: Two Ways of Understanding the Simulation Approach; 7 Semantic Holism: Still a Good Buy; 8 Other Minds, Rationality and Analogy; 9 Indexical Predicates and Their Uses; 10 On Speaking Thus: The Semantics of Indirect Discourse; 11 Lagadonian Kinds and Psychological Concepts

12 What Are Psychological Concepts For?13 Moore's Paradox: A Wittgensteinian Approach; 14 On First-Person Authority; References; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-295) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13471-4

1-280-42013-8

0-511-16982-5

0-511-20599-6

0-511-06108-0

0-511-29700-9

0-511-61589-2

0-511-06954-5

OCLC:

191035784