Explaining attitudes : a practical approach to the mind
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Explaining attitudes : a practical approach to the mind
（Cambridge studies in philosophy / general editor, Ernest Sosa）
Cambridge University Press, 1995
- : hard
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Explaining Attitudes offers an important challenge to the dominant conception of belief found in the work of such philosophers as Dretske and Fodor. According to this dominant view beliefs, if they exist at all, are constituted by states of the brain. Lynne Rudder Baker rejects this view and replaces it with a quite different approach - practical realism. Seen from the perspective of practical realism, any argument that interprets beliefs as either brain states or states of immaterial souls is a 'non-starter'. Practical realism takes beliefs to be states of the whole persons, rather like states of health. What a person believes is determined by what a person would do, say and think in various circumstances. Thus beliefs and other attitudes are interwoven into an integrated, commonsensical conception of reality.
目次
- Part I. The Standard View and its Problems: 1. Two conceptions of the attitudes
- 2. Content and causation
- 3. The myth of folk psychology
- Part II. Explanation in Theory and Practice: 4. On standards of explanatory adequacy
- 5. How beliefs explain
- Part III. Practical Realism and its Prospects: 6. Belief without reification
- 7. Mind and metaphysics
- 8. Practical realism writ large.
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