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Human Thought
Joseph Mendola
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Description for Human Thought
Paperback. Conscious experience and thought content are customarily treated as distinct problems. This work argues that they are not, and begins by developing a chastened empiricist theory of content. Series: Philosophical Studies S. Num Pages: 490 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 879.
Conscious experience and thought content are customarily treated as distinct problems. This book argues that they are not. Part One develops a chastened empiricist theory of content, which cedes to experience a crucial role in rooting the contents of thoughts, but deploys an expanded conception of experience and of the ways in which contents may be rooted in experience. Part Two shows how, were the world as we experience it to be, our neurophysiology would be sufficient to constitute capacities for the range of intuitive thoughts recognized by Part One. Part Three ... Read more
Conscious experience and thought content are customarily treated as distinct problems. This book argues that they are not. Part One develops a chastened empiricist theory of content, which cedes to experience a crucial role in rooting the contents of thoughts, but deploys an expanded conception of experience and of the ways in which contents may be rooted in experience. Part Two shows how, were the world as we experience it to be, our neurophysiology would be sufficient to constitute capacities for the range of intuitive thoughts recognized by Part One. Part Three ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
490
Condition
New
Series
Philosophical Studies S.
Number of Pages
481
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792344025
SKU
V9780792344025
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