What Minds Can Do by Pierre Jacob

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What Minds Can Do, first published in 1997, has two goals: to find a naturalistic or non-semantic basis for the representational powers of a person's mind, and to show that these semantic properties are involved in the causal explanation of the person's behaviour. It addresses issues that are central to contemporary philosophical debate.

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What Minds Can Do by Pierre Jacob

Some of a person's mental states have the power to represent real and imagined states of affairs: they have semantic properties. What Minds Can Do has two goals: to find a naturalistic or non-semantic basis for the representational powers of a person's mind, and to show that these semantic properties are involved in the causal explanation of the person's behaviour. In the process, this 1997 book addresses issues that are central to much contemporary philosophical debate. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy of mind and of language, cognitive science, and psychology.
'.. the book addresses issues that are central to much contemporary philosophical debate, in both Anglo-Saxon and Continental philosophy. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy of mind and language, cognitive science and psychology.' French Book News
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ISBN 13 9780521574365
ISBN 10 0521574366
Title What Minds Can Do
Author Pierre Jacob
Series Cambridge Studies In Philosophy
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 1997-01-23
Number of pages 312
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.