Hacker The Intellectual Powers

A Study of Human Nature
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-60905-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 496 Seiten, E-Book

The Intellectual Powers is a philosophical investigationinto the cognitive and cogitative powers of mankind. It develops aconnective analysis of our powers of consciousness, intentionality,mastery of language, knowledge, belief, certainty, sensation,perception, memory, thought, and imagination, by one ofBritain's leading philosophers. It is an essential guide andhandbook for philosophers, psychologists, and cognitiveneuroscientists.
* The culmination of 45 years of reflection on the philosophy ofmind, epistemology, and the nature of the human person
* No other book in epistemology or philosophy of psychologyprovides such extensive overviews of consciousness,self-consciousness, intentionality, mastery of a language,knowledge, belief, memory, sensation and perception, thought andimagination
* Illustrated with tables, tree-diagrams, and charts to provideoverviews of the conceptual relationships disclosed byanalysis
* Written by one of Britain's best philosophical minds
* A sequel to Hacker's Human Nature: The CategorialFramework
* An essential guide and handbook for all who are working inphilosophy of mind, epistemology, psychology, cognitive science,and cognitive neuroscience

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hacker, P. M. S.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hacker, P. M. S.

Über Autor(innen)

P. M. S. Hacker is a Fellow of St John's College,Oxford. He is the author of numerous books and articles onphilosophy of mind and philosophy of language as well asphilosophical foundations of cognitive neuroscience, and is theleading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Among his manypublications is the monumental four-volume Analytical Commentaryon Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations(Wiley-Blackwell, 1991, first two volumes co-authored with G. P.Baker), and its epilogue Wittgenstein's Place in TwentiethCentury Analytic Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 1996). His work(with Maxwell Bennett) on cognitive neuroscience, PhilosophicalFoundations of Neuroscience (2003) and History of CognitiveNeuroscience (2008), is renowned. The first volume of histrilogy on human nature, Human Nature: the CategorialFramework, was published in 2007.