The Measure of Mind - Robert J. Matthews

The Measure of Mind

Propositional Attitudes and their Attribution
Buch | Hardcover
278 Seiten
2007
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-921125-8 (ISBN)
84,80 inkl. MwSt
Provides a critique of a widely held view of beliefs, desires, and other 'propositional attitudes', and their role in the production of thought and behaviour. This book is suitable for scholars and graduate students working in the philosophy of mind and language.
The Measure of Mind provides a sustained critique of a widely held representationalist view of propositional attitudes and their role in the production of thought and behaviour. On this view, having a propositional attitude is a matter of having an explicit representation that plays a particular causal/computational role in the production of thought and behaviour. Robert J. Matthews argues that this view does not enjoy the theoretical or the empirical support that proponents claim for it; moreover, the view misconstrues the role of propositional attitude attributions in cognitive scientific theorizing.

The Measure of Mind goes on to develop an alternative measurement-theoretic account of propositional attitudes and the sentences by which we attribute them. On this account, the sentences by which we attribute propositional attitudes function semantically like the sentences by which we attribute a quantity of some physical magnitude (e.g., having a mass of 80 kilos). That is, in much the same way that we specify a quantity of some physical magnitude by means of its numerical representative on a measurement scale, we specify propositional attitude of a given type by means of its representative in a linguistically-defined measurement space. Propositional attitudes turn out to be causally efficacious aptitudes for thought and behaviour, not semantically evaluable mental particulars of some sort. Matthews' measurement-theoretic account provides a more plausible view of the explanatorily relevant properties of propositional attitudes, the semantics of propositional attitude attributions, and the role of such attributions in computational cognitive scientific theorizing.

PART I: THE RECEIVED VIEW AND ITS TROUBLES ; PART TWO: A MEASUREMENT-THEORETIC ACCOUNT OF PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDES AND THEIR ATTRIBUTION

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.6.2007
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 161 x 240 mm
Gewicht 589 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10 0-19-921125-6 / 0199211256
ISBN-13 978-0-19-921125-8 / 9780199211258
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