Keeping a Head in School by Melvin D Levine

Keeping a Head in School by Melvin D Levine

Representation is puzzling. Physical events in our heads and sounds in our mouths come to be 'about' the world around us, equipping us to think and talk about anything from the most fundamental regularities in the universe to trivial matters of gossip. InThe Metaphysics of Representation, Robert Williams tells a story about how representational properties arise out of a fundamentally non-representational world. The representational properties of language are reduced, via convention, to the representational properties of thoughts. The representational properties of thoughts are reduced, via principles of rationalization, to the representational properties of perception and intention. This most fundamental layer of representation is grounded in the functions these structures have to cause and be caused by events in the world. Williams integrates work from rival traditions to present a combined perspective in the metaphysics of representation, gives new predictions and explanations of representational phenomena, and offers new solutions to long-standing problems.

Mel Levine, M.D., is a pediatrician and the head of the Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning at the University of North Carolina Medical School. He is the creator and cochairman of All Kinds of Minds, a nonprofit organization dedicated to understanding learning differences, and the author of A Mind at a Time and The Myth of Laziness, two prior national best-selling books. He and his wife, Bambi, live in North Carolina on Sanctuary Farm.

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ISBN 13	9780838820698
ISBN 10	0838820697
Title	Keeping a Head in School
Author	Melvin D Levine
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Educators Publishing Service, Incorporated
Year published	1990-05-01
Number of pages	297
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