P. M. S. Hacker 
The Intellectual Powers [PDF ebook] 
A Study of Human Nature

The Intellectual Powers is a philosophical investigation
into the cognitive and cogitative powers of mankind. It develops a
connective analysis of our powers of consciousness, intentionality,
mastery of language, knowledge, belief, certainty, sensation,
perception, memory, thought, and imagination, by one of
Britain’s leading philosophers. It is an essential guide and
handbook for philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive
neuroscientists.

* The culmination of 45 years of reflection on the philosophy of
mind, epistemology, and the nature of the human person

* No other book in epistemology or philosophy of psychology
provides such extensive overviews of consciousness,
self-consciousness, intentionality, mastery of a language,
knowledge, belief, memory, sensation and perception, thought and
imagination

* Illustrated with tables, tree-diagrams, and charts to provide
overviews of the conceptual relationships disclosed by
analysis

* Written by one of Britain’s best philosophical minds

* A sequel to Hacker’s Human Nature: The Categorial
Framework

* An essential guide and handbook for all who are working in
philosophy of mind, epistemology, psychology, cognitive science,
and cognitive neuroscience

About the author

P. M. S. Hacker is a Fellow of St John’s College,
Oxford. He is the author of numerous books and articles on
philosophy of mind and philosophy of language as well as
philosophical foundations of cognitive neuroscience, and is the
leading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Among his many
publications is the monumental four-volume Analytical Commentary
on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1991, first two volumes co-authored with G. P.
Baker), and its epilogue Wittgenstein’s Place in Twentieth
Century Analytic Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 1996). His work
(with Maxwell Bennett) on cognitive neuroscience, Philosophical
Foundations of Neuroscience (2003) and History of Cognitive
Neuroscience (2008), is renowned. The first volume of his
trilogy on human nature, Human Nature: the Categorial
Framework, was published in 2007.