
Language Mind and Logic
Butterfield(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 9. April 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-521-10844-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-10844-7 (9780521108447)
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Language Mind and Logic
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05/1986
Cambridge University Press
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Language Mind and Logic
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05/1986
Cambridge University Press
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Content
Introduction; 1. Banish disContent Jerry Fodor; 2. Truth conditions: a causal theory Anthony Appiah; 3. Semantic reductionism and methodological solipsism Harold Noonan; 4. Content and context Jeremy Butterfield; 5. Circumstantial attitudes and benevolent cognition John Perry; 6. Replication and functionalism Jane Heal; 7. Anti-realism: cognitive role and semantic content John Skorupski; 8. Privacy and rule-following Edward Craig; 9. Inventing logical necessity Crispin Wright; 10. Intuition in constructive mathematics Charles Parsons; Index of names.