Psychological Metaphysics

ISBN-13: 9781138202603 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str.

Peter A. White

Opis

Originally published in 1993, Psychological Metaphysics is an exploration of the most basic and important assumptions in the psychological construction of reality, with the aim of showing what they are, how they originate, and what they are there for.

Spis treści

List of Figures and Tables.  Preface.  1. Introduction to Psychological Metaphysics  Part 1: General Psychological Metaphysics  2. Practical Concerns and Lay Judgement  3. The Nature of Basicity in the Psychological Construction of Reality  4. Foundations: Basic Categories and Basic Particulars  5. Why Regularity Information is Not Basic to Causal Understanding  6. The Causal Powers Theory of Causal Concepts  Part 2: Psychological Metaphysics of the Physical World  8. Fundamental Assumptions about the Nature of Order in the Physical World  9. Causal Relations in the Physical World  10. Causal Order in Nature  Part 3: Psychological Metaphysics of the Mind  11. The Concept of Action  12. Formation of Beliefs about the Mind  13. Implications of Research in Causal Attribution  14. The Battleground of the Mind  15. Judgement and Feelings.  Summary and Comments.  References.  Name Index.  Subject Index.

O autorze

Peter A. White