Mind in Action

ISBN-13: 9780198236917 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 320 str.

Bede Rundle

Opis

Mind in Action challenges the dominant view in contemporary philosophy that human action is driven by thoughts and desires much as a machine is made to function by the operation of physical causes. Bede Rundle rejects the materialist view of mind and the causal theory of action; his alternative approach elucidates such key concepts as thought, belief, desire, intention, and freedom to give a fresh view of human behavior.

Recenzje

The book is full of careful, detailed, sometimes terse and difficult, but never dogmatic discussions of the central concepts concerned with thought and action, including animal mentality and behaviour ... more than just revisiting old, familiar places; it is relocating some old truths ... This is a welcome book.

O autorze

Bede Rundle is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Trinity College, Oxford.