Having thought : essays in the metaphysics of mind /

Having thought : essays in the metaphysics of mind /

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Author / Creator:	Haugeland, John, 1945-2010.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
Description:	390 pages ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Philosophy of mind. Philosophy of mind.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13159165

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ISBN:	0674382331 9780674382336 0674004159 9780674004153
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-378) and index.
Summary:	The thirteen essays collected here are all, in one way or another, about understanding: What is it? What does it take to have it? What does it presuppose in what can be understood? In the first group of essays, under the heading Mind, the questions are more specifically about intelligence: First, how can intelligence itself be understood scientifically (as in "cognitive science"); and second, how can the scientific endeavor, so conceived, account for the possibility of a self or subject that understands? Under the second head, Matter, the focus turns to the metaphysical issues surrounding the intelligibility of the mental as a distinctive and irreducible phenomenon in a universe that is, in some sense, ultimately material. The third group of essays, Meaning, addresses the pivotal topics of representation and intentionality, with particular emphasis on the diversity of possibilities - including those that are not symbolic and not internal. The final group, headed Truth, contains the most recent essays. Here the earlier themes come together around the fundamental problem of the metaphysics of mind: What is objective knowledge, and how is it possible? The answer, broached in an exploratory way, amounts to a contemporary revival of transcendental constitution - an idea prominent in the history of philosophy, but largely absent from the recent literature.
Other form:	Online version: Haugeland, John, 1945- Having thought. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998 Online version: Haugeland, John, 1945- Having thought. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998
Standard no.:	9780674004153

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Summary:	The unifying theme of these 13 essays is understanding. What is it? What does it take to have it? What does it presuppose in what can be understood? In this volumes first group of essays, John Haugeland addresses mind and intelligence. Intelligibility comes to the fore in a set of metaphysical pieces on analogue and digital systems and supervenience. In the third set of papers Haugeland elaborates on and then undermines common presuppositions about the foundational notions of intentionality and representation. Finally, the fourth and most recent group of essays confronts the character of understanding in relation to what is understood. The necessary interdependence between personality and intelligence is developed and explained, specifically in the conditions of the possibility of objective scientific knowledge.
Physical Description:	390 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-378) and index.
ISBN:	0674382331 9780674382336 0674004159 9780674004153