Reconceiving experience : a solution to a problem inherited from Descartes
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Reconceiving experience : a solution to a problem inherited from Descartes
（SUNY series in logic and language）（SUNY series in philosophy）
State University of New York Press, c1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-468) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Kearns investigates representation and intentional activity to determine how experience contributes to propositional thought and belief, and how experience is based on neural states and events. This speech-act theory shows using language to be intentional (purposive) activity which cannot be explained computationally or causally. Learning language makes propositional thinking possible and provides conceptual structure to experience.
The account of language and its acquisition sheds light on further issues such as reference and proper names, the difference between syllogistic and modern logic, and the paradoxes of self-reference. As for experience, the nonrelational analysis of representing explains our awareness of the world, which doesn't give us access to the world, and our access, which isn't provided by awareness. Reconceiving Experience presents a new framework for understanding language, thought, and experience, and for carrying out research.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Descartes' Problem
2. The Larger Problem:
Sensing and Thinking
3. The Larger Problem:
Descartes' Best Efforts
4. The Empiricist Response
5. Acting Intentionally
6. Learning to Use Language:
Getting Started
7. Learning to Use Language:
Gaining Proficiency
8. Learning to Use Language:
Theoretical Issues
9. Representing:
The Fundamentals
10. Representing:
Logical Differences between The Two Stages
11. Representing:
Transcending Identifying-Stage Limitations
12. Knowledge and Certainty
13. A Solution
References
Index
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