Mind Ascribed: An Elaboration and Defence of Interpretivism

by Bruno Mölder

This book provides a thoroughly worked out and systematic presentation of an interpretivist position in the philosophy of mind, of the view that having mental properties is a matter of interpretation. Bruno Mölder elaborates and defends a particular version of interpretivism, the ascription theory, which explicates the possession of mental states with contents in terms of their canonical ascribability, and shows how it can withstand various philosophical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027252165
• ISBN13: 9789027252166
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 293 Pages