Rules, Reason, and Self-Knowledge

Name: Rules, Reason, and Self-Knowledge
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ISBN: 9780674067080

ISBN-10: 0674067088

ISBN-13: 9780674067080

Edition: 2012

Authors: Julia Tanney

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Julia Tanney offers a sustained criticism of today’s canon in philosophy of mind, which conceives the workings of the rational mind as the outcome of causal interactions between mental states that have their bases in the brain. With its roots in physicalism and functionalism, this widely accepted view provides the philosophical foundation for the cardinal tenet of the cognitive sciences: that cognition is a form of information-processing. Rules, Reason, and Self-Knowledge presents a challenge not only to the cognitivist approach that has dominated philosophy and the special sciences for the last fifty years but, more broadly, to metaphysical-empirical approaches to the study of the…

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List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/8/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Introduction



Rules and Normativity



De-Individualizing Norms of Rationality (1995)



Normativity and Thought (1999)



Playing the Rule-Following Game (2000)



Real Rules (2008)



Reason-Explanation and Mental Causation



Why Reasons May Not Be Causes (1995)



Reason-Explanation and the Contents of the Mind (2005)



Reasons as Non-Causal, Context-Placing Explanations (2009)



Pain, Polio, and Pride: Some Reflections on "Becausal" Explanations



Philosophical Elucidation and Cognitive Science



How to Resist Mental Representations (1998)



On the Conceptual, Psychological, and Moral Status of Zombies, Swamp-Beings, and Other "Behaviorally Indistinguishable" Creatures (2004)



Conceptual Analysis, Theory Construction, and Philosophical Elucidation in the Philosophy of Mind



Ryle's Regress and the Philosophy of Cognitive Science (2011)



Self-Knowledge



Some Constructivist Thoughts about Self-Knowledge (1996)



Self-Knowledge, Normativity, and Construction (2002)



Speaking One's Mind (2007)



Conceptual Amorphousness, Reasons, and Causes


Acknowledgments


Provenance of Essays


Index