Functions in Mind A Theory of Intentional Content |
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| Author:
| Price, Carolyn |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-924200-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2001 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Clarendon Press |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $57.00 |
Book Description:
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Carolyn Price investigates what it means to say that mental states -- thoughts, wishes, perceptual experiences, and so on -- are about things in the world. Her answer turns on the idea that we are endowed with mechanisms whose function is to produce states that carry certain kinds of information about the world. Functions in Mind is an adventurous contribution to the project of bringing together philosophy and biology in order to understand the mind as part of the natural world.
Carolyn Price investigates what it means to say that mental states -- thoughts, wishes, perceptual experiences, and so on -- are about things in the world. Her answer turns on the idea that we are endowed with mechanisms whose function is to produce states that carry certain kinds of information about the world. Functions in Mind is an adventurous contribution to the project of bringing together philosophy and biology in order to understand the mind as part of the natural world.