Language, Reality and Mind

A Defense of Everyday Thought

C. Crittenden (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

234 Seiten

2009
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-57694-0 (ISBN)

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The relation between common-sense belief and scientific theory is hotly debated in contemporary philosophy. The author gives an extended defense of ordinary belief and outlines its contents on the nature of reality, the soundness of ordinary language, and the existence of the mind and its relation to the body.

CHARLES CRITTENDEN is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge, USA. He is the author of Unreality: The Metaphysics of Fictional Objects and articles on philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, social and political philosophy, and non-Western religion.

Preface Introduction A Transcendental Argument for Everyday Thought Beginning to Talk About the World: Philosophical Requirements, Empirical Facts, and Expanding the Basic Framework Objects and Nature Reference and Natural Kinds Having a Mental Life Contemporary Theory of the Mental: Pains, Brains, and Consciousness Thought: Computers and Varieties of Functionalism The Mental and the Physical Overviews, Overbeliefs, and a Final Survey Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.4.2009
Zusatzinfo	X, 234 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-230-57694-X / 023057694X
ISBN-13	978-0-230-57694-0 / 9780230576940
Zustand	Neuware