What Minds Can Do: Intentionality in a Non-Intentional World

by Pierre Jacob

Book Overview

Some of a person's mental states have the power to represent real and imagined states of affairs: they have semantic properties. What Minds Can Do has two goals: to find a naturalistic or nonsemantic basis for the representational powers of a person's mind, and to show that these semantic properties are involved in the causal explanation of the person's behavior. In the process, the book addresses issues that are central to much contemporary philosophical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521574366
• ISBN13: 9780521574365
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"