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, Horst, Steven W., 1960-. Laws, mind, and free will. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2011, xiii, 277pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black hardcover. ISBN 9780262015257.

gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Gut. 129 S. ; 8 Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten Bibliothek und kann die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen aufweisen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.); der Buchzustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 240.…

Zustand: as new. Cambridge, MA. :MIT Press, 2011. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 277 pp. Contents : Laws and the mind -- Laws, vindication, and ontology -- The received solution in computational psychology -- Cartwritght, universal laws, and fundamentalism -- Empiricism and laws -- Laws and idealization -- Laws and freedom -- Freedom, determinism, and two accounts of laws -- Three appeals and a Kantian conclusion -- Psychophysical laws and models of early vision -- Modeling cortical dynamics -- Belief-desire psychologies. - An account of scientific laws that vindicates the status of psychological laws and shows natural laws to be compatible with free will. In Laws, Mind, and Free Will, Steven Horst addresses the apparent dissonance between the picture of the natural world that arises from the sciences and our understanding of ourselves as agents who think and act. If the mind and the world are entirely governed by natural laws, there seems to be no room left for free will to operate. Moreover, although the laws of physical science are clear and verifiable, the sciences of the mind seem to yield only rough generalizations rather than universal laws of nature. Horst argues that these two familiar problems in philosophy-the apparent tension between free will and natural law and the absence of strict laws in the sciences of the mind-are artifacts of a particular philosophical thesis about the nature of laws: that laws make claims about how objects actually behave. Horst argues against this Empiricist orthodoxy and proposes an alternative account of laws-an account rooted in a cognitivist approach to philosophy of science. Horst argues that once we abandon the Empiricist misunderstandings of the nature of laws there is no contrast between strict laws and generalizations about the mind ( ceteris paribus laws, laws hedged by the caveat other things being equal ), and that a commitment to laws is compatible with a commitment to the existence of free will. Horst's alternative account, which he calls cognitive Pluralism, vindicates the truth of psychological laws and resolves the tension between human freedom and the sciences. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780262015257. Keywords : RECHT, *. …

Zustand: Gut. Gr-8vo. XIX, 427 S. OPb. mit OSchU. Einband minimal berieben, Umschlag druckspurig, sonst gut erhaltenes Exemplar. "A first-rate contribution to the literature on the foundations of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of psychology. It is clear, powerfully argued, highly original, and provides one of the best general critiques to date of the claims of the advocates of the computational theory of mind." Jay L. Garfield, Zitat vom Klappentext. …

XIX/427 S., Originalhalbleinenband (publisher's halfcloth binding), Originalumschlag (publisher's dust jacket), gutes Exemplar (fine), Sprache: englisch.

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