Tyler Burge

Origins of Objectivity

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Produktbeschreibung

Tyler Burge presents an original study of the most primitive ways in which individuals represent the physical world. By reflecting on the science of perception and related psychological and biological sciences, he gives an account of constitutive conditions for perceiving the physical world, and thus aims to locate origins of representational mind.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 646
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1089g
• ISBN-13: 9780199581405
• ISBN-10: 0199581401
• Artikelnr.: 29425779

Autorenporträt

Tyler Burge is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Truth, Thought, Reason: Essays on Frege (OUP, 2005) and Foundations of Mind (OUP, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Part I
* 1: Introduction
* 2: Basic Terminology: What the Questions Mean
* 3: Anti-Individualism
* Part II
* 4: Individual Representationalism in the Twentieth Century's First
Half
* 5: Individual Representationalism after Mid-Century: Preliminaries
* 6: Neo-Kantian Individual Representationalism: Strawson and Evans
* 7: Language Interpretation and Individual Representationalism: Quine
and Davidson
* Part III
* 8: Biological and Methodological Backgrounds
* 9: Origins
* 10: Origins of Some Representational Categories
* 11: Glimpses Forward