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Consciousness and the Origins of Thought

By Norton Nelkin

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
9780511597992, 0521564093, 0521035694, 0511597991, 9780521035699, 9780521564090
LCC
BD418.3 .N45 1996
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (1791094 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Edition
1
Pages
360\357
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book offers a comprehensive and broadly rationalist theory of the mind that continually tests itself against experimental results and clinical data. Taking issue with both Empiricists and Externalists, Norton Nelkin argues that perception is cognitive, constructive and proposition-like, and that meaning is determined "in the head". Finally, he offers an account of how we acquire some of our most basic concepts, including the concept of the self and that of other minds.

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