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Demonstrative Thought

Author : Felipe Nogueira de Carvalho
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110465809
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Demonstrative Thought written by Felipe Nogueira de Carvalho and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we explain our capacity to think about particulars in our external environment? Many philosophers have answered this question in terms of a sophisticated conception of space and time and the movement of objects therein. A more recent reaction against this view sought to explain this capacity solely in terms of perceptual mechanisms of object individuation. Neither explanation remains fully satisfactory. This book argues for a more desirable middle ground in terms of a pragmatist approach to demonstrative thought, where this capacity is explained through graded practical knowledge of objects. This view allows us to do justice to important insights put forward by both positions criticized in the book, while avoiding their potential shortcomings. It also paves the way to a more pragmatist approach to the theory of mental representation, where the notion of practical knowledge is allowed to play a central role in our cognitive life. Finally, it shows how practical knowledge may be firmly rooted in neurobiological processes and mechanisms that conform to what the empirical sciences tell us about the mind.

Demonstrative Thought

Author : Felipe Nogueira de Carvalho
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110464799
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Cognitive Phenomenology

Author : Tim Bayne
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199579938
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Phenomenology written by Tim Bayne and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central concern of the cognitive phenomenology debate is whether there is a distinctive 'cognitive phenomenology, ' that is, a kind of phenomenology that has cognitive or conceptual character in some sense that needs to be precisely determined. This volume addresses the question of whether conscious thought has cognitive phenomenology.

Singular Thought and Mental Files

Author : Rachel Goodman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191063878
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Singular Thought and Mental Files written by Rachel Goodman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of singular (or de re) thought has become central in philosophy of mind and language, yet there is still little consensus concerning the best way to think about the nature of singular thought. Coinciding with recognition of the need for more clarity about the notion, there has been a surge of interest in the concept of a mental file as a way to understand what is distinctive about singular thought. What isn't always clear, however, is what mental files are meant to be, and why we should believe that thoughts that employ them are singular as opposed to descriptive. This volume brings together original chapters by leading scholars which aim to examine and evaluate the viability of the mental files framework for theorizing about singular thought. The first section of the volume addresses the central issues of the definition and nature of singular thought, as well as how it relates to the notion of a mental file. The second section addresses the legitimacy of the mental files conception of singular thought by assessing the philosophical motivations or the purported empirical support for the view, or by laying out a specific version of it. The third section helps to clarify both the notion of a mental file and the mental files conception of singular thought by focusing on their role in explaining de jure coreference in thought and language. The volume then concludes with a final section that casts doubt on the mental files conception and the legitimacy of the file-theoretic framework more generally.

The Given

Author : Michelle Montague
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191065714
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Given written by Michelle Montague and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is given to us in conscious experience? The Given is an attempt to answer this question and in this way contribute to a general theory of mental content. The content of conscious experience is understood to be absolutely everything that is given to one, experientially, in the having of an experience. Michelle Montague focuses on the analysis of conscious perception, conscious emotion, and conscious thought, and deploys three fundamental notions in addition to the fundamental notion of content: the notions of intentionality, phenomenology, and consciousness. She argues that all experience essentially involves all four things, and that the key to an adequate general theory of what is given in experience—of 'the given'—lies in giving a correct specification of the nature of these four things and the relations between them. Montague argues that conscious perception, conscious thought, and conscious emotion each have a distinctive, irreducible kind of phenomenology—what she calls 'sensory phenomenology', 'cognitive phenomenology', and 'evaluative phenomenology' respectively—and that these kinds of phenomenology are essential in accounting for the intentionality of these mental phenomena.

The Epistemic Role of Consciousness

Author : Declan Smithies
Publisher : Philosophy of Mind
ISBN 13 : 0199917663
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Epistemic Role of Consciousness written by Declan Smithies and published by Philosophy of Mind. This book was released on 2019 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of consciousness in our mental lives? Declan Smithies argues here that consciousness is essential to explaining how we can acquire knowledge and justified belief about ourselves and the world around us. On this view, unconscious beings cannot form justified beliefs and so they cannot know anything at all. Consciousness is the ultimate basis of all knowledge and epistemic justification. Smithies builds a sustained argument for the epistemic role of phenomenal consciousness which draws on a range of considerations in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. His position combines two key claims. The first is phenomenal mentalism, which says that epistemic justification is determined by the phenomenally individuated facts about your mental states. The second is accessibilism, which says that epistemic justification is luminously accessible in the sense that you're always in a position to know which beliefs you have epistemic justification to hold. Smithies integrates these two claims into a unified theory of epistemic justification, which he calls phenomenal accessibilism. The book is divided into two parts, which converge on this theory of epistemic justification from opposite directions. Part 1 argues from the bottom up by drawing on considerations in the philosophy of mind about the role of consciousness in mental representation, perception, cognition, and introspection. Part 2 argues from the top down by arguing from general principles in epistemology about the nature of epistemic justification. These mutually reinforcing arguments form the basis for a unified theory of the epistemic role of phenomenal consciousness, one that bridges the gap between epistemology and philosophy of mind.

Language Mind and Logic

Author : Butterfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521320467
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Language Mind and Logic written by Butterfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-05-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of eleven original essays in analytical philosophy by British and American philosophers, centring on the connection between mind and language. Two themes predominate: how it is that thoughts and sentences can represent the world; and what having a thought - a belief, for instance - involves. Developing from these themes are the questions: what does having a belief require of the believer, and of the way he or she relates to the environment? In particular, does having a belief require speaking a language? The volume concludes the informal series stemming from the meetings sponsored by the Thyssen Foundation. It will interest analytical philosophers, students doing courses in philosophy of mind within the analytical tradition and philosophically interested researchers in cognitive psychology.

The Musical Representation

Author : Charles O. Nussbaum
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262140969
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book The Musical Representation written by Charles O. Nussbaum and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How human musical experience emerges from the audition of organized tones is a riddle of long standing. In The Musical Representation, Charles Nussbaum offers a philosophical naturalist's solution. Nussbaum founds his naturalistic theory of musical representation on the collusion between the physics of sound and the organization of the human mind-brain. He argues that important varieties of experience afforded by Western tonal art music since 1650 arise through the feeling of tone, the sense of movement in musical space, cognition, emotional arousal, and the engagement, by way of specific emotional responses, of deeply rooted human ideals. Construing the art music of the modern West as representational, as a symbolic system that carries extramusical content, Nussbaum attempts to make normative principles of musical representation explicit and bring them into reflective equilibrium with the intuitions of competent listeners. Nussbaum identifies three modes of musical representation, describes the basis of extramusical meaning, and analyzes musical works as created historical entities (performances of which are tokens or replicas). In addition, he explains how music gives rise to emotions and evokes states of mind that are religious in character. Nussbaum's argument proceeds from biology, psychology, and philosophy to music--and occasionally from music back to biology, psychology, and philosophy. The human mind-brain, writes Nussbaum, is a living record of its evolutionary history; relatively recent cognitive acquisitions derive from older representational functions of which we are hardly aware. Consideration of musical art can help bring to light the more ancient cognitive functions that underlie modern human cognition. The biology, psychology, and philosophy of musical representation, he argues, have something to tell us about what we are, based on what we have been.

Anti-Externalism

Author : Joseph Mendola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199534993
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Anti-Externalism written by Joseph Mendola and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internalism about the mind is the view that your thoughts and sensations are constituted by conditions inside your skin. Externalism denies this, and over the past 30 years has become the dominant view in philosophy of mind. Joseph Mendola argues that the externalist theories are false and develops a viable internalist alternative.

Singular Thoughts

Author : Annalisa Coliva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788886570756
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Singular Thoughts written by Annalisa Coliva and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Immunity to Error Through Misidentification

Author : Simon Prosser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521198305
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Immunity to Error Through Misidentification written by Simon Prosser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devoted exclusively to the topic, this book analyses immunity to error through misidentification as an important feature of personal judgments.

The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Language

Author : Manuel Garcia-Carpintero
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472578228
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Language written by Manuel Garcia-Carpintero and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with works of Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein, The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Language provides a critical history of the core concepts in the area. From generative syntax and formal semantics to broader philosophical issues such as intentional contexts, theories of meaning and context dependence, a well-known team of experts offer insightful analysis into some of the fundamental questions asked by the philosophy of language. The result is a comprehensive introduction, featuring a series of research tools, including an A to Z of key terms and concepts, a detailed list of resources and a fully annotated bibliography. For students and scholars looking to better understand the questions and debates informing the subject, this is an essential study tool.

Hume's Imagination

Author : Tito Magri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192679112
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Hume's Imagination written by Tito Magri and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a new and systematic interpretation of the mental nature, function and structure, and importance of the imagination in Book 1, 'Of the Understanding', of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature. The proposed interpretation has deeply revisionary implications for Hume's philosophy of mind and for his naturalism, epistemology, and stance to scepticism. The book remedies a surprising blindspot in Hume scholarship and contributes to the current, lively philosophical debate on imagination. Hume's philosophy, if rightly understood, gives suggestions about how to treat imagination as a mental natural kind, its cognitive complexity and variety of functions notwithstanding. Hume's imagination is a faculty of inference and the source of a distinctive kind of idea, which complements our sensible representations of objects. Our cognitive nature, if restricted to the representation of objects and of their relations, would leave ordinary and philosophical cognition seriously underdetermined and expose us to scepticism. Only the non-representational, inferential faculty of the imagination can put in place and vindicate ideas like causation, body, and self, which support our cognitive practices. The book reconstructs how Hume's naturalist inferentialism about the imagination develops this fundamental insight. Its five parts deal with the dualism of representation and inference; the explanation of generality and modality; the production of causal ideas; the production of spatial and temporal content, and the distinction of an external world of bodies and an internal one of selves; and the replacement of the understanding with imagination in the analysis of cognition and in epistemology.

Modes of Representation

Author : Richard Kimberly Heck
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198861591
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Modes of Representation written by Richard Kimberly Heck and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-19 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modes of Presentation analyses a collection of problems, known as 'Frege's puzzle', resulting from how thinkers and speakers have a limited perspective on reference in thought and language. Heck argues that these puzzles have much to teach us both about the foundations of cognition and the nature of linguistic communication.

Quality and Content

Author : Joseph Levine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192520466
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Quality and Content written by Joseph Levine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Levine draws together a series of essays in which he has developed his distinctive approach to philosophy of mind. He explores such topics as the "phenomenal concept strategy" to defend materialism from anti-materialist intuitions, the doctrine of representationalism about phenomenal character, the modal argument against materialism, the nature of demonstrative thought, and cognitive phenomenology. Levine argues that the phenomenal concept strategy cannot work and that representationalism has certain fatal flaws, at least if it is to be joined to a materialist metaphysics. On the other hand, he defends materialism from the modal argument, contending that it relies on a questionable conflation of semantic and metaphysical issues. Levine also provides a naturalistic theory of demonstrative thought, criticizing certain philosophical arguments involving that notion in the process. All of the essays in some way respond to various materialist attempts to close the "explanatory gap" as well as outline a different conception of conscious experience that would accommodate the gap. Levine connects his work with related themes in contemporary psychology and with such hot philosophical topics as cognitive phenomenology.

Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds

Author : Naomi Eilan
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780199245642
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds written by Naomi Eilan and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-03-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book contains research into the cognitive phenomenon of 'joint attention'. Philosophical and psychological perspectives on the nature and significance of this phenomenon are examined"--Provided by publisher.

Introspection and Consciousness

Author : Declan Smithies
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199744793
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Introspection and Consciousness written by Declan Smithies and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of introspection stands at the interface between questions in epistemology about the nature of self-knowledge and questions in the philosophy of mind about the nature of consciousness. What is the nature of introspection such that it provides us with a distinctive way of knowing about our own conscious mental states? And what is the nature of consciousness such that we can know about our own conscious mental states by introspection? How should we understand the relationship between consciousness and introspective self-knowledge? Should we explain consciousness in terms of introspective self-knowledge or vice versa? Until recently, questions in epistemology and the philosophy of mind were pursued largely in isolation from one another. This volume aims to integrate these two lines of research by bringing together fourteen new essays and one reprinted essay on the relationship between introspection, self-knowledge, and consciousness.