Content and ConsciousnessRoutledge, 5. apr. 2010 - 264 síður Content and Consciousness is an original and ground-breaking attempt to elucidate a problem integral to the history of Western philosophical thought: the relationship of the mind and body. In this formative work, Dennett sought to develop a theory of the human mind and consciousness based on new and challenging advances in the field that came to be known as cognitive science. This important and illuminating work is widely-regarded as the book from which all of Dennett’s future ideas developed. It is his first explosive rebuttal of Cartesian dualism and one of the founding texts of philosophy of mind. |
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PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION XIX | |
The Mind and Science 3 | |
The Problem of Intentionality 20 | |
Two Blind Alleys 35 | |
The Way Out 42 | |
The Evolution of Appropriate Structures 51 | |
Goaldirected Behaviour 70 | |
The Nature of Images and the Introspective Trap 149 | |
People and Processes 164 | |
Reasons and Causes 175 | |
Intentional Actions 184 | |
Willing 192 | |
Knowing and Understanding 201 | |
Language and Information 209 | |
NOTES 217 | |
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