What Minds Can Do (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521574013)

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 nonsemantic 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 behavior. In the process, the 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.

Author: Pierre Jacob
ISBN-10: 0521574013
ISBN-13: 9780521574013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/13/1997
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d