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Meaning, Mind, and Action

Meaning, Mind, and Action Philosophical Essays - Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein

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Julia Tanney's Meaning, Mind, and Action challenges widely held presuppositions within philosophy in its classical 'analytic', 'naturalist', and 'cognitivist' forms. Beginning with canonical views in the philosophy of language and logic, the arguments are then applied to discussions of knowledge, action, causation, the nature of the mental, consciousness, and thinking.
Responding to a tradition that harks back to Plato and was resurrected by Mill, Frege, Russell, Moore, and the early Wittgenstein, Meaning, Mind, and Action challenges today's orthodoxy on its own terms, beginning with canonical views in the philosophy of language and philosophical logic. The arguments of these early chapters are then applied to the theory of knowledge, action, and causation, followed by those on the nature of the mental, consciousness, and thinking. The final section, on the logic of the mental, widens the arguments to include the subject of animal minds, the postulation of mental representations in cultural anthropology, the author's intention in literary theory, and the philosophical problem of irrationality in psychiatry.

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ISBN: 9781839984822
Publisher: Anthem Press
Imprint: Anthem Press
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DEWEY: 128.2
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 242
Weight: 454g
Height: 229mm
Width: 153mm
Spine width: 26mm