Mind and Common Sense: Philosophical Essays on Common Sense Psychology - Softcover

Mind and Common Sense : Philosophical Essays on Common Sense Psychology

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The contributors to this volume examine recent controversies about the importance of common sense psychology for our understanding of the human mind. Common sense provides a familiar and friendly psychological scheme by which to talk about the mind. Its categories (belief, desire, intention, consciousness, emotion, and so on) tend to portray the mind as quite different from the rest of nature, and thus irreducible to physical matters and its laws. In this volume a variety of positions on common sense psychology from critical to supportive, from exegetical to speculative, are represented. Among the questions posed are: Is common sense psychology an empirical theory, a body of analytic knowledge, a practice or a strategy If it is a legitimate enterprise can it be naturalized or not If it is not legitimate can it be eliminated Is its fate tied to our understanding of consciousness Should we approach its concepts and generalizations from the standpoint of conceptual analysis or from the philosophy of science. Artikel-Nr. 9780521069397

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