An important and influential book series in philosophy of mind, edited by Ned Block and the late Hilary Putnam. This series was responsbile for many influential works by important authors such as Putnam, Searle, Jerrold Katz, Jerry Fodor, Michael Tye, Daniel Dennett, Jaegwon Kim, Jose Luis Bermudez, Jesse Prinz, and Alva Noe.
A provocative ontological-cum-semantic position asserting that the right ontology is austere in its exclusion of numerous common-sense and scientific posits and that many statements employing such posits are nonetheless true.
A new view of the metaphysics of time, arguing that the traditional tensed-tenseless debate within analytic philosophy should be seen as the first stage in a philosophical investigation of time, and that the next stage belongs to phenomenology.
Consciousness, Concepts, and Higher-Order Thoughts
by Rocco J. Gennaro
ISBN: 9780262016605
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 18, 2011
A defense of a version of the higher-order thought (HOT) theory of consciousness with special attention to such topics as concepts and animal consciousness.
Among the entities that can be mentally or linguistically represented are mental and linguistic representations themselves. That is, we can think and talk about speech and thought. This phenomenon is...
In this engaging book, Jerry Fodor argues against the widely held view that mental processes are largely computations, that the architecture of cognition is massively modular, and that the explanation...
In this book, José Luis Bermúdez addresses two fundamental problems in the philosophy and psychology of self-consciousness: (1) Can we provide a noncircular account of fully fledged self-conscious...
Cora Diamond has played a leading role in the reception and elaboration of Wittgenstein's philosophy. Diamond's contribution to Wittgenstein scholarship is distinguished by her striking and widely discussed...
The realistic spirit, a nonmetaphysical approach to philosophical thought concerned with the character of philosophy itself, informs all of the discussions in these essays by philosopher Cora Diamond....
Edited by Frédérique de Vignemont and Adrian J. T. Alsmith
ISBN: 9780262036832
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 15, 2017
An interdisciplinary and comprehensive treatment of bodily self-consciousness, considering representation of the body, the sense of bodily ownership, and representation of the self.
