Belief in Psychology: A Study in the Ontology of Mind

by Jay L. Garfield

Belief in Psychology tackles the knotty problem of how to treat the propositional attitudes states such as beliefs, desires, hopes and fears within cognitive science. Jay Garfield asserts that the propositional attitudes can and must play useful theoretical roles in the science of the mind and stresses the importance of their social context in this sophisticated and original argument. Garfield proposes his own alternative to the apparent dilemma of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262071088
• ISBN13: 9780262071086
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.