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Author | : Dorrit Claire Cohn |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691213127 |
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This book investigates the entire spectrum of techniques for portraying the mental lives of fictional characters in both the stream-of-consciousness novel and other fiction. Each chapter deals with one main technique, illustrated from a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction by writers including Stendhal, Dostoevsky, James, Mann, Kafka, Joyce, Proust, Woolf, and Sarraute.
Author | : Jordi Fernández |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2013-02-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199664021 |
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How do we know our current states of mind—what we want, and believe in? Jordi Fernández proposes a new theory of self-knowledge, challenging the traditional view that it is a matter of introspection. He argues that we know what we believe and desire by 'looking outward', towards the states of affairs which those beliefs and desires are about.
Author | : Paul Matthews |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2023-10-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1805110497 |
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Transparent Minds explores the intersection between neuroscience and science fiction stories. Paul Matthews expertly analyses the narratives of humans and nonhumans from Mary Shelley to Kazuo Ishiguro across 200 years of the genre. In doing so he gives lucid insight into the meaning of existence and self-awareness. Rigorously researched and highly accessible, Matthews argues that psycho-emotional science fiction writers both imitate and inform alien and post-human consciousnesses through exploratory narratives and metaphor. Drawing from a diverse range of scholars and critics, Matthews explores topics such as psychonarration and neuroaesthetics, to create a thoughtful and cogent argument. By synthesising concepts from philosophy, neuroscience, and literary theory, Matthews posits the potential for science fiction to bridge the gap in understanding between AI and human minds. Given the recent advancements in AI technology, Matthews’ timely discussion enters the speculative realm of sentient technology and postcyborg ethics. The work constitutes a major contribution to cross-disciplinary perspectives on alien and posthuman psychology, that engages with future states of existence in both ourselves and the machines we create. Transparent Minds will be of interest to innovators, authors, and science fiction enthusiasts alike.
Author | : Dorrit Cohn |
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Release | : 1983 |
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Author | : Jordi Fernández |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2013-02-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191640654 |
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We all seem to be capable of telling what our current states of mind are. At any given moment, we know, for example, what we believe, and what we want. But how do we know that? In Transparent Minds, Jordi Fernández explains our knowledge of our own propositional attitudes. Drawing on the so-called 'transparency' of belief, he proposes that we attribute beliefs and desires to ourselves based on our grounds for those beliefs and desires. The book argues that this view explains our privileged access to those propositional attitudes. Three applications are drawn from the model of self-knowledge that emerges: a solution to Moore's paradox, an account of the thought-insertion delusion, and an explanation of self-deception. The puzzles raised by all three phenomena can be resolved, Fernández argues, if we construe them as failures of self-knowledge. The resulting picture of self-knowledge challenges the traditional notion that it is a matter of introspection. For the main tenet of Transparent Minds is that we come to know what we believe and desire by 'looking outward,' and attending to the states of affairs which those beliefs and desires are about.
Author | : Piek Vossen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2022-05-05 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1108485766 |
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This book investigates how science can help mitigate social media's negative effects on communication and create more transparency.
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.
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Publisher | : Alex Ba |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2022-11-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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There was nothing to compare Sui Generis with. The creature had colors, shapes, and patterns that we only see in those rare dreams that vanish as soon as we open our eyes, leaving a sweet sense of promise. Beautiful oddity and peculiarity oozed from the cocoon. The translucent, reddish matter covered the insides of the embryo. It used to be thicker than it is now. The thinning of the outer layer was a sign of the embryo's maturity. Soon it will be ready to be born.
Author | : Hamid Vahid |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2020-09-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1000179028 |
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This book is concerned with the conditions under which epistemic reasons provide justification for beliefs. The author draws on metaethical theories of reasons and normativity and then applies his theory to various contemporary debates in epistemology. In the first part of the book, the author outlines what he calls the dispositional architecture of epistemic reasons. The author offers and defends a dispositional account of how propositional and doxastic justification are related to one another. He then argues that the dispositional view has the resources to provide an acceptable account of the notion of the basing relation. In the second part of the book, the author examines how his theory of epistemic reasons bears on the issues involving perceptual reasons. He defends dogmatism about perceptual justification against conservatism and shows how his dispositional framework illuminates certain claims of dogmatism and its adherence to justification internalism. Finally, the author applies his dispositional framework to epistemological topics including the structure of defeat, self-knowledge, reasoning, emotions and motivational internalism. The Dispositional Architecture of Epistemic Reasons demonstrates the value of employing metaethical considerations for the justification of beliefs and propositions. It will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in epistemology and metaethics.
Author | : Dorrit Cohn |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2000-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780801865220 |
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Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies The border between fact and fiction has been trespassed so often it seems to be a highway. Works of history that include fictional techniques are usually held in contempt, but works of fiction that include history are among the greatest of classics. Fiction claims to be able to convey its own unique kinds of truth. But unless a reader knows in advance whether a narrative is fictional or not, judgment can be frustrated and confused. In The Distinction of Fiction, Dorrit Cohn argues that fiction does present specific clues to its fictionality, and its own justifications. Indeed, except in cases of deliberate deception, fiction achieves its purposes best by exercising generic conventions that inform the reader that it is fiction. Cohn tests her conclusions against major narrative works, including Proust's A la Recherche du temps perdu, Mann's Death in Venice, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and Freud's case studies. She contests widespread poststructuralist views that all narratives are fictional. On the contrary, she separates fiction and nonfiction as necessarily distinct, even when bound together. An expansion of Cohn's Christian Gauss lectures at Princeton and the product of many years of labor and thought, The Distinction of Fiction builds on narratological and phenomenological theories to show that boundaries between fiction and history can be firmly and systematically explored.