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Kenneth A. Loparo
Keeping the World in Mind [PDF ebook]
Mental Representations and the Sciences of the Mind

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Drawing on a wide range of resources, including the history of philosophy, her role as director of a cognitive neuroscience group, and her Wittgensteinian training at Oxford, Jacobson provides fresh views on representation, concepts, perception, action, emotion and belief.

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Series Editors’ Foreword Introduction 1. Regarding Representations 2. From Fodorian to Aristotelian Representations 3. Aristotelian Representations II 4. Hume 5. Ideas, Language and Skepticism 6. Concepts 7. Thought 8. Vision 9. Emotions, Actions and Beliefs I 10. Emotions, Actions and Beliefs II Conclusion References Index

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Anne Jaap Jacobson is Professor of Philosophy and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston, USA.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 186 ● ISBN 9781137315588 ● File size 1.7 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 3090765 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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