Some of a person's mental states have the power to represent real and imagined states of affairs: they have semantic properties. What Minds Can Do has two goals: to find a naturalistic or non-semantic basis for the representational powers of a person's mind, and to show that these semantic properties are involved in the causal explanation of the person's behaviour. In the process, this 1997 book addresses issues that are central to much contemporary philosophical debate. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy of mind and of language, cognitive science, and psychology.
| ISBN: | 9780521574365 |
| Publication date: | 23rd January 1997 |
| Author: | Pierre Jacob |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 312 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy |
| Genres: |
Philosophy of mind |
Some of a person's mental states have the power to represent real and imagined states of affairs: they have semantic properties. What Minds Can Do has two goals: to find a naturalistic or non-semantic basis for the representational powers of a person's mind, and to show that these semantic properties are involved in the causal explanation of the person's behaviour. In the process, this 1997 book addresses issues that are central to much contemporary philosophical debate. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy of mind and of language, cognitive science, and psychology.
What Minds Can Do features in the following genres: Philosophy of mind
What Minds Can Do is available in Hardback, Paperback
What Minds Can Do was written by Pierre Jacob and published by Cambridge University Press
What Minds Can Do has 312 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Studies in Philosophy series
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