Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind

by John Haugeland

Book Overview

The unifying theme of these thirteen essays is understanding. What is it? What does it take to have it? What does it presuppose in what can be understood? In the first group of essays, John Haugeland addresses mind and intelligence. Intelligibility comes to the fore in a set of "metaphysical" pieces on analog and digital systems and supervenience. In the third set of papers, Haugeland elaborates and then undermines a battery of common presuppositions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674004159
• ISBN13: 9780674004153
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.9"