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This book provides a radical alternative to naturalistic theories of content, and offers a new conception of the place of mind in the world. Confronting head-on the scientific conception of the nature of reality that has dominated the Anglo-American philosophical tradition, Michael Morris here prese...

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Main Author: Morris, Michael (Michael Rowland)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1992.
Series:Oxford philosophical monographs.
Subjects:
Metaphysics.
Scientism.
Content (Psychology)
Ethics.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Metaphysics
Ethics
Métaphysique.
Scientisme.
Contenu (Psychologie)
Morale.
Langage et langues > Philosophie.
metaphysics.
ethics (philosophy)
Language and languages > Philosophy
Scientism
Metaphysik
Sprachphilosophie
Szientismus
Ethik
Bewusstsein
Epistemology
Electronic books.
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Summary:This book provides a radical alternative to naturalistic theories of content, and offers a new conception of the place of mind in the world. Confronting head-on the scientific conception of the nature of reality that has dominated the Anglo-American philosophical tradition, Michael Morris here presents a detailed analysis of content and propositional attitudes, based on the idea that truth is a value. In the course of this analysis he rejects the causal theory of the explanation of behaviour and replaces it with an alternative which depends upon a rich conception of the behaviour we explain with reference to states of mind. According to the theory presented here, our understanding of other people is inextricably involved with our evaluation of what they do, and the objectivity of truth depends upon the objectivity of moral goodness. Dr Morris's clear and detailed exposition of his controversial argument sounds an emphatic challenge to the naturalistic orthodoxy in metaphysics, ethics, and cognitive science.
Physical Description:1 online resource (336 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-332) and index.
ISBN:9780191679919
0191679917