Common Mind An Essay on Psychology, Society and Politics

Name: Common Mind An Essay on Psychology, Society and Politics
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ISBN: 9780195078183

ISBN-10: 0195078187

ISBN-13: 9780195078183

Edition: 1993

Authors: Philip Pettit

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What makes human beings intentional and thinking subjects? How does their intentionality and thought connect with their social nature and their communal experience? How do the answers to these questions shape the assumptions which it is legitimate to make in social explanation and political evaluation? These are the broad-ranging issues which Pettit addresses in this novel study. The Common Mind argues for an original way of marking off thinking subjects, in particular human beings, from other intentional systems, natural and artificial. It holds by the holistic view that human thought requires communal resources while denying that this social connection compromises the autonomy of…

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List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/31/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Mind
Preview	p. 3
Intentionality	p. 10
Intentional Agents	p. 10
Intentional States	p. 24
Theories of Intentionality	p. 43
Thought	p. 54
Two Requirements of Thought	p. 60
The First Requirement: Intentional Ascent	p. 69
The Second Requirement: Rule-Following	p. 76
Mind and Society
Preview	p. 111
For Individualism, against Collectivism	p. 117
The Issue	p. 119
Do Structural Regularities Override Intentional?	p. 143
Do Structural Regularities Outflank Intentional?	p. 155
For Holism, against Atomism	p. 165
The Issue	p. 165
The Argument for Holism	p. 175
Holism and Relativism	p. 193
Mind, Society, and Theory
Preview	p. 217
Social Theory	p. 228
Intentional Interpretation	p. 229
Structural and Historicist Theory	p. 248
Rational Choice Theory	p. 264
Political Theory	p. 284
Contract-Centred Thought	p. 288
Value-Centred Thought	p. 302
Institution-Centred Thought	p. 322
References	p. 341
Index	p. 355
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