Pieces of mind : the proper domain of psychological predicates /
Carrie Figdor presents a critical assessment of how psychological terms are used to describe the non-human biological world. She argues against the anthropocentric attitude which takes human cognition as the standard against which non-human capacities are measured, and offers an alternative basis fo...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Pieces of Mind: The Proper Domain of Psychological Predicates; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1: Introduction; 1.1 General Remarks; 1.2 Chapter Summaries; 1.3 Consciousness and Content; 2: Cases: Qualitative Analogy; 2.1 General Remarks; 2.2 Background to the Semantic Problem; 2.3 Qualitative Analogy: Plants; 2.4 Qualitative Analogy: Bacteria; 2.5 Concluding Remarks; 3: Cases: Quantitative Analogy; 3.1 General Remarks; 3.2 Models and Meaning: The Lotka-Volterra Model; 3.3 Quantitative Analogy: Fruit Flies and the DD Model.
- 3.4 Quantitative Analogy: Neurons and the TD Model3.5 Concluding Remarks; 4: Literalism: An Initial Defense; 4.1 General Remarks; 4.2 Literalism Elaborated; 4.3 The Implicit Scare Quoter; 4.4 Concluding Remarks; 5: The Nonsense View; 5.1 General Remarks; 5.2 The Nonsense View; 5.3 The Literalist Responds; 5.4 Dennett and Searle Respond; 5.5 Concluding Remarks; 6: The Metaphor View; 6.1 General Remarks; 6.2 The Metaphor View; 6.3 The Literalist Responds: Motivation; 6.4 The Literalist Responds: Meaning; 6.5 Epistemic Metaphor; 6.6 Concluding Remarks; 7: The Technical View; 7.1 General Remarks.
- 7.2 The First Variant: The Technical-Behaviorist7.3 The Literalist Responds to the First Variant; 7.4 The Second Variant: Exsanguinated Properties; 7.5 The Literalist Responds to the Second Variant; 7.6 Concluding Remarks; 8: Literalism and Mechanistic Explanation; 8.1 General Remarks; 8.2 Homuncular Functionalism and Mechanistic Explanation; 8.3 Seeking a Psychological Exception; 8.4 Discharging Discharging; 8.5 Concluding Remarks; 9: Literalism and Moral Status; 9.1 General Remarks; 9.2 Psychological Ascriptions and Moral Status; 9.3 The Short Term: Moral Status and Anthropomorphism.
- 9.4 The Long Term: Moral Status and Anthropocentrism9.5 The Fear of Mechanistic Reduction; 9.6 Concluding Remarks; 10: Concluding Summary; Bibliography; Index.