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The Rational and Natural Mind
ISBN-13: 9783639171686 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 168 str.
The human mind presents itself as an object of study which dovetails a rational and a physical nature. Victor M. Verdejo examines in this book both dimensions of the mind by elucidating the distinctive and common features of a genuinely philosophical and a genuinely empirical approach. The target philosophical theory, based upon neo-Fregean developments, is the one that constitutively appeals to the notion of rationality and that works within what is called the Rationality Framework (RF). The target empirical theory, celebrated in cognitive science, is the Language of Thought Hypothesis (LOT). At the heart of both theories there is the assumption of realism about mental states and the categories of folk psychology, and they can be seen as providing (rationalist and empirical) articulations of the view that folk-psychological explanation is of a legitimate kind. According to Verdejo's proposal, a correct analysis of these theories ultimately shows the possibility of a unifying picture of the mind, one in which philosophical research on nonmechanical rationality and empirical research on mechanical mental processes go very much hand in hand."
The human mind presents itself as an object of study which dovetails a rational and a physical nature. Víctor M. Verdejo examines in this book both dimensions of the mind by elucidating the distinctive and common features of a genuinely philosophical and a genuinely empirical approach. The target philosophical theory, based uponneo-Fregean developments, is the one thatconstitutively appeals to the notion of rationalityand that works within what is called the RationalityFramework (RF). The target empirical theory,celebrated in cognitive science, is the Language ofThought Hypothesis (LOT). At the heart of boththeories there is the assumption of realism aboutmental states and the categories of folk psychology,and they can be seen as providing (rationalist and empirical) articulations of the view thatfolk-psychological explanation is of a legitimatekind. According to Verdejos proposal, a correctanalysis of these theories ultimately shows thepossibility of a unifying picture of the mind, one inwhich philosophical research on nonmechanicalrationality and empirical research on mechanicalmental processes go very much hand in hand.
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