Keeping the World in Mind: Mental Representations and the Sciences of the Mind

by Anne Jaap Jacobson

Overview

Drawing on a wide range of resources, including the history of philosophy, her role as director of a cognitive neuroscience group, and her Wittgensteinian training at Oxford, Jacobson provides fresh views on representation, concepts, perception, action, emotion and belief.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230296718
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/18/2013
Series:	New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science Series
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Anne Jaap Jacobson is Professor of Philosophy and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston, USA.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Foreword Introduction 1. Regarding Representations 2. From Fodorian to Aristotelian Representations 3. Aristotelian Representations II 4. Hume 5. Ideas, Language and Skepticism 6. Concepts 7. Thought 8. Vision 9. Emotions, Actions and Beliefs I 10. Emotions, Actions and Beliefs II Conclusion References Index

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