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Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind

Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind Paperback / softback - 2000

by John Haugeland

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Paperback / softback. New. The unifying theme of these thirteen essays is understanding. Haugeland addresses mind and intelligence; intelligibility; analog and digital systems and supervenience; presuppositions about the foundational notions of intentionality and representation; and the essential character of understanding in relation to what is understood.
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  • Title Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind
  • Author John Haugeland
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvard University Press, Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-09-15
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780674004153
  • ISBN 9780674004153 / 0674004159
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.95 x 5.73 x 0.92 in (22.73 x 14.55 x 2.34 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Dewey Decimal Code 128.2

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Cognitivism in psychology and philosophy is roughly the position that intelligent behavior can be explained (only) by appeal to internal "cognitive processes"-that is, rational thought in a broad sense.

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The unifying theme of these thirteen essays is understanding. In the first group of essays John Haugeland addresses mind and intelligence. Intelligibility comes to the fore in a set of "metaphysical" pieces on analog and digital systems and supervenience. In the third set of papers Haugeland elaborates and then undermines a battery of common presuppositions about the foundational notions of intentionality and representation. The final group contains the most recent essays. Here the earlier themes come together around the fundamental problem of the metaphysics of the 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.