Pieces of Mind
The Proper Domain of Psychological Predicates
(Sprache: Englisch)
Carrie Figdor presents a critical assessment of how psychological terms are used to describe the non-human biological world. She argues against the anthropocentric attitude which takes human cognition as the standard against which non-human capacities are...
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Carrie Figdor presents a critical assessment of how psychological terms are used to describe the non-human biological world. She argues against the anthropocentric attitude which takes human cognition as the standard against which non-human capacities are measured, and offers an alternative basis for naturalistic explanation of the mind.
Klappentext zu „Pieces of Mind “
Psychological terms are widely used to describe the biological world: plants, insects, bacteria colonies, even single cells are described as making decisions, anticipating rewards, and communicating with language. Carrie Figdor presents a comprehensive critical assessment of the interpretation of psychological terms across biological domains. She argues that we interpret these descriptions as literal claims about the capacities of such beings, and she argues against the anthropocentric attitude which takes human cognition as the standard for full-blooded capacities, to which nonhuman capacities are compared and found wanting. She offers an alternative view of what is required for a naturalistic explanation of the mind, and promotes finding a non-anthropocentric framework for determining distinctions in moral status. This is the first book to give a comprehensive theory of the interpretation of mental language throughout biology and to emphasize the role of mathematical modeling in the spread and revision of concepts.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Pieces of Mind “
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Cases: Qualitative Analogy
- 3: Cases: Quantitative Analogy
- 4: Literalism: An Initial Defense
- 5: The Nonsense View
- 6: The Metaphor View
- 7: The Technical View
- 8: Literalism and Mechanistic Explanation
- 9: Literalism and Moral Status
- 10: Concluding Summary
Autoren-Porträt von Carrie Figdor
Carrie Figdor is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in The Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Mind & Language, Frontiers in Communication, and other leading scholarly journals. Her main philosophical interests are in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy of neuroscience, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. A former newswoman with The Associated Press, she also writes on issues in science communication.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Carrie Figdor
- 2018, 232 Seiten, Maße: 14,7 x 22,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198809522
- ISBN-13: 9780198809524
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.05.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Figdor ... is interested in what a "mind" is, but along the way she evaluates what we mean by the term ... [a] clear evaluation of what we mean when we use these psychological terms ... Recommended. J. A. Mather, CHOICE
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