Reconceiving Experience: A Solution to a Problem Inherited from Descartes (SUNY Series in Logic and Language) (SUNY series in Philosophy) - Tapa blanda

Kearns, John T.

 
9780791430729: Reconceiving Experience: A Solution to a Problem Inherited from Descartes (SUNY Series in Logic and Language) (SUNY series in Philosophy)
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ISBN 10: 0791430723 ISBN 13: 9780791430729
Editorial: State University of New York Press, 1996

Sinopsis

Presents a new framework for understanding language, thought, and experience, and for carrying out research.

Kearns investigates representation and intentional activity to determine how experience contributes to propositional thought and belief, and how experience is based on neural states and events. This speech-act theory shows using language to be intentional (purposive) activity which cannot be explained computationally or causally. Learning language makes propositional thinking possible and provides conceptual structure to experience.

The account of language and its acquisition sheds light on further issues such as reference and proper names, the difference between syllogistic and modern logic, and the paradoxes of self-reference. As for experience, the nonrelational analysis of representing explains our awareness of the world, which doesn't give us access to the world, and our access, which isn't provided by awareness. Reconceiving Experience presents a new framework for understanding language, thought, and experience, and for carrying out research.

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Acerca del autor

John T. Kearns is Professor of Philosophy at State University of New York at Buffalo. He has also written The Principles of Deductive Logic and Using Language: The Structures of Speech Acts, both published by SUNY Press; and Deductive Logic, A Programed Introduction. He is also editor of the SUNY Press publication series in Logic and Language.

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Editorial
State University of New York Press
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0791430723
ISBN 13 
9780791430729
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Número de páginas
486
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9780791430712: Reconceiving Experience: A Solution to a Problem Inherited from Descartes (SUNY series in Logic and Language)

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ISBN 10:  0791430715 ISBN 13:  9780791430712
Editorial: State University of New York Press, 1996
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