Rules, Reason, and Self-Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Tanney, Julia

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 379
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Main description: Tanney challenges not only the cognitivist approach that has dominated philosophy and the special sciences for fifty years, but metaphysical-empirical approaches to the mind in general. Rules, Reason, and Self-Knowledge advocates a return to the world-involving, circumstance-dependent, normative practices where the rational mind has its home.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction --
1. De-Individualizing Norms of Rationality (1995) --
2. Normativity and Thought (1999) --
3. Playing the Rule-Following Game (2000) --
4. Real Rules (2008) --
5. Why Reasons May Not Be Causes (1995) --
6. Reason-Explanation and the Contents of the Mind (2005) --
7. Reasons as Non-Causal, Context-Placing Explanations (2009) --
8. Pain, Polio, and Pride: Some Reflections on "Becausal" Explanations --
9. How To Resist Mental Representations (1998) --
10. On The Conceptual, Psychological, And Moral Status Of Zombies, Swamp-Beings, And Other "Behaviorally Indistinguishable" Creatures (2004) --
11. Conceptual Analysis, Theory Construction, and Philosophical Elucidation in the Philosophy of Mind --
12. Ryle's Regress and the Philosophy of Cognitive Science (2011) --
13. Some Constructivist Thoughts about Self-Knowledge (1996) --
14. Self-Knowledge, Normativity, and Construction (2002) --
15. Speaking One's Mind (2007) --
16. Conceptual Amorphousness, Reasons, and Causes --
Acknowledgments --
Provenance of Essays --
Index.

✦ Subjects

Philosophie;Philosophy;PHILOSOPHY--Essays;PHILOSOPHY--Mind & Body;Philosophy, other;;Philosophy of mind;Cognitive science;PHILOSOPHY -- Essays;PHILOSOPHY -- Mind & Body