P. M. S. Hacker

Intellectual Powers

Mitwirkender: Hacker, P M S

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781118651216
• ISBN-10: 1118651219
• Artikelnr.: 38606776

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: The Project Prolegomena Chapter 1 Consciousness as
the Mark of the Mental 1. Consciousness as a mark of modernity 2. The
genealogy of the concept of consciousness 3. The analytic of consciousness
4. The early modern philosophical conception of consciousness 5. The
dialectic of consciousness I 6. The contemporary philosophical conception
of consciousness 7. The dialectic of consciousness II 8. The illusions of
self-consciousness Chapter 2 Intentionality as the Mark of the Mental 1.
Intentionality 2. Intentional 'objects' 3. The central sun: the relation of
thought to reality 4. The first circle: what do we believe (hope, suspect,
etc.)? 5. The second circle: the relation of language to reality 6. The
third circle: the relation of thought to language 7. The fourth circle: the
epistemology of intentionality 8. The fifth circle: meaning and
understanding Chapter 3 Mastery of a Language as the Mark of a Mind 1. A
language-using animal 2. Linguistic communication 3. Knowing a language 4.
Meaning something 5. Understanding and interpreting 6. Meaning and use 7.
The dialectic of understanding: the 'mystery' of understanding new
sentences Part I The Cognitive and Doxastic Powers Chapter 4 Knowledge 1.
The value of knowledge 2. The grammatical groundwork 3. The semantic field
4. What knowledge is not 5. Certainty 6. Analyses of knowledge 7. Knowledge
and ability 8. Knowing how 9. What is knowledge? The role of 'know' in
human discourse Chapter 5 Belief 1. The web of belief 2. The grammatical
groundwork 3. The surrounding landscape 4. Voluntariness and responsibility
for belief 5. Belief and feelings 6. Belief and dispositions 7. Belief and
mental states 8. Why believing something cannot be a brain state 9. What is
belief? The role of 'believe' in human discourse Chapter 6 Knowledge,
Belief and the Epistemology of Belief 1. Knowledge and belief 2. The
epistemology of belief 3. Non-standard cases: self-deception and
unconscious beliefs Chapter 7 Sensation and Perception 1. The cognitive
powers of the senses 2. Sensation 3. Perception and sensation 4. Sensation,
feeling and tactile perception Chapter 8 Perception 1. Perceptual organs,
the senses and proper sensibles 2. Perceptual powers: cognition and
volition 3. The classical causal theory of perception 4. The modern causal
theory of perception Chapter 9 Memory 1. Memory as a form of knowledge 2.
The objects of memory 3. The faculty and its actualities 4. Forms of memory
5. Further conceptual links and contrasts 6. The dialectic of memory I: the
Aristotelian legacy 7. The dialectic of memory II: trace theory Part II The
Cogitative Powers Chapter 10 Thought and Thinking 1. Floundering without an
overview 2. The varieties of thinking 3. Is thinking an activity? 4. What
do we think in? 5. Thought, language and the language of thought 6. Can
animals think? 7. The agent, organ and location of thinking 8. Thinking and
the 'inner life' Chapter 11 Imagination 1. A cogitative faculty 2. The
conceptual network of the imagination 3. Perceiving and imagining 4.
Perceptions and 'imaginations': clarity and vivacity of mental imagery 5.
Mental images and imagining 6. Imagination and the will 7. The imaginable,
the conceivable and the possible Appendix: Philosophical Analysis and the
Way of Words 1. On method 2. Methodological objections and
misunderstandings Index

Rezensionen

"This is Peter Hacker at his best - an investigation of the cognitive and cogitative powers that quintessentially distinguish us from other animals which is at once painstaking, unsettling, and bracing." -- A.W. Moore, St Hugh's College Oxford

"A meticulous, illuminating, and brilliantly sustained exercise in conceptual cartography. This is Peter Hacker writing at the height of his formidable powers and displaying his unerring ability to uncover philosophical pretension and confusion." -- John Cottingham, University of Reading and Heythrop College, University of London

"Peter Hacker is the most subtle and penetrating philosopher of the age. In recent years he has demolished the pretentions of cognitive neuroscience and caused outrage among fellow philosophers by showing that many of their claims are meaningless. The Intellectual Powers, his most recent book, is another masterpiece, examining the cognitive capacities of the human species. If, as the Ancient Greeks believed, philosophy is the most important subject, Hacker is one of our most seminal thinkers." (Matthew Syed, The Times, 7 December 2013)
"An essential guide and handbook for all who are working in philosophy of mind, epistemology, psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience." (Expofairs.com, 21 November 2013)