The act of thinking / Derek Melser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melser, Derek, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Act (Philosophy).

Thought and thinking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 287 p. )

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In this monograph, Derek Melser argues that the core assumption of both folk psychology and cognitive science - that thinking goes on in the head - is mistaken. Melser argues that thinking is not an intracranial process of any kind, mental or neural, but is rather a learned action of the person."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : is thinking a natural process, or is it an action?

1. Action-based theories of thinking (1)

2. Action-based theories of thinking (2)

3. Concerted activity

4. The tokening of concerted activity

5. Derivation of solo action from concerting

6. Concerted perceiving and the tokening of it

7. Thinking

8. Where our notion of the mind comes from (1)

9. Where our notion of the mind comes from (2)

10. Literal paraphrases of the mind metaphors

11. Our knowledge of actions

App. A sample of mind metaphors.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-282) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-262-27965-7