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Author Jacob, Pierre, 1949-

Title What minds can do : intentionality in a non-intentional world / Pierre Jacob.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 299 pages) : illustrations.
Series Cambridge studies in philosophy
Cambridge studies in philosophy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index.
Summary Some of a person's mental states have the power to represent real and imagined states of affairs: they have semantic properties. What Minds Can Do has two goals: to find a naturalistic or non-semantic basis for the representational powers of a person's mind, and to show that these semantic properties are involved in the causal explanation of the person's behavior. In the process, the book addresses issues that are central to much contemporary philosophical debate. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy of mind and language, cognitive science, and psychology.
Contents Introduction -- part I. The naturalization of intentionality. What is intentional realism? -- Introduction to informational semantics -- Three problems for informational semantics -- Information and teleology -- part II. The causal role of intentionality. The computational representational theory of mind (CRTM) -- Must an intentional realist be a meaning atomist? -- Functionalism and the threat of preemption -- Explaining intentional behavior -- Conclusion: a postlude on semantics and psychology.
Note Print version record.
Subject Intentionality (Philosophy)
Philosophy of mind.
PHILOSOPHY -- Mind & Body.
Intentionality (Philosophy) (OCoLC)fst00975963
Philosophy of mind. (OCoLC)fst01060840
Semantiek.
Intentionaliteit.
Other Form: Print version: Jacob, Pierre, 1949- What minds can do. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997 0521574013 (DLC) 96014157 (OCoLC)34548692
ISBN 9780511583315 (electronic bk.)
0511583311 (electronic bk.)
0511002718 (electronic bk.)
9780511002717 (electronic bk.)
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