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Author | : Peter Carruthers |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2013-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199685142 |
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Do we have introspective access to our own thoughts? Peter Carruthers challenges the consensus that we do: he argues that access to our own thoughts is always interpretive, grounded in perceptual awareness and sensory imagery. He proposes a bold new theory of self-knowledge, with radical implications for understanding of consciousness and agency.
Author | : Alessandro Duranti |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2015-01-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107026393 |
Download The Anthropology of Intentions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This multidisciplinary study explores how people make sense of each other's actions.
Author | : Peter S. Onuf |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2012-10-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813934230 |
Download The Mind of Thomas Jefferson Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Mind of Thomas Jefferson, one of the foremost historians of Jefferson and his time, Peter S. Onuf, offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation’s founding fathers. Challenging current attempts to appropriate Jefferson to serve all manner of contemporary political agendas, Onuf argues that historians must look at Jefferson’s language and life within the context of his own place and time. In this effort to restore Jefferson to his own world, Onuf reconnects that world to ours, providing a fresh look at the distinction between private and public aspects of his character that Jefferson himself took such pains to cultivate. Breaking through Jefferson’s alleged opacity as a person by collapsing the contemporary interpretive frameworks often used to diagnose his psychological and moral states, Onuf raises new questions about what was on Jefferson’s mind as he looked toward an uncertain future. Particularly striking is his argument that Jefferson’s character as a moralist is nowhere more evident, ironically, than in his engagement with the institution of slavery. At once reinvigorating the tension between past and present and offering a new way to view our connection to one of our nation’s founders, The Mind of Thomas Jefferson helps redefine both Jefferson and his time and American nationhood.
Author | : Thomas Metzinger |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 896 |
Release | : 2004-08-20 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0262263807 |
Download Being No One Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves, as they appear in conscious experience. The phenomenal self, however, is not a thing but an ongoing process; it is the content of a "transparent self-model." In Being No One, Metzinger, a German philosopher, draws strongly on neuroscientific research to present a representationalist and functional analysis of what a consciously experienced first-person perspective actually is. Building a bridge between the humanities and the empirical sciences of the mind, he develops new conceptual toolkits and metaphors; uses case studies of unusual states of mind such as agnosia, neglect, blindsight, and hallucinations; and offers new sets of multilevel constraints for the concept of consciousness. Metzinger's central question is: How exactly does strong, consciously experienced subjectivity emerge out of objective events in the natural world? His epistemic goal is to determine whether conscious experience, in particular the experience of being someone that results from the emergence of a phenomenal self, can be analyzed on subpersonal levels of description. He also asks if and how our Cartesian intuitions that subjective experiences as such can never be reductively explained are themselves ultimately rooted in the deeper representational structure of our conscious minds.
Author | : Therese Scarpelli Cory |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107042925 |
Download Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A study of Aquinas's theory of self-knowledge, situated within the mid-thirteenth-century debate and his own maturing thought on human nature.
Author | : Peter Lamarque |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Narration (Rhetoric) |
ISBN | : 9781306883474 |
Download Opacity of Narrative Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What is narrative? What is distinctive about the great literary narratives? In virtue of what is a narrative fictional or non-fictional? In this important new book Peter Lamarque, one of the leading philosophers of literature at work today, explores these and related questions to bring new clarity and insight to debates about narrative in philosophy, critical theory, and narratology.
Author | : Peter Garratt |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2016-11-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137593296 |
Download The Cognitive Humanities Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book identifies the ‘cognitive humanities’ with new approaches to literature and culture that engage with recent theories of the embodied mind in cognitive science. If cognition should be approached less as a matter of internal representation—a Cartesian inner theatre—than as a form of embodied action, how might cultural representation be rethought? What can literature and culture reveal or challenge about embodied minds? The essays in this book ask what new directions in the humanities open up when the thinking self is understood as a participant in contexts of action, even as extended beyond the skin. Building on cognitive literary studies, but engaging much more extensively with ‘4E’ cognitive science (embodied, embedded, enactive, extended) than previously, the book uses case studies from many different historical settings (such as early modern theatre and digital technologies) and in different media (narrative, art, performance) to explore the embodied mind through culture.
Author | : Shaun & Stephen P. Stich Nichols |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780198236092 |
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Author | : Thomas Nagel |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2012-11-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199919755 |
Download Mind and Cosmos Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic. In spite of the great achievements of the physical sciences, reductive materialism is a world view ripe for displacement. Nagel shows that to recognize its limits is the first step in looking for alternatives, or at least in being open to their possibility.
Author | : Quassim Cassam |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199657572 |
Download Self-knowledge for Humans Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Humans are not model epistemic citizens. Our reasoning can be careless, our beliefs eccentric, and our desires irrational. Quassim Cassam develops a new account of self-knowledge which recognises this feature of human life. He argues that self-knowledge is a genuine cognitive achievement, and that self-ignorance is almost always on the cards.