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Thought and Knowledge : Essays / Norman Malcolm.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1977Description: 1 online resource (218 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501738760
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 121
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Descartes’ Proof that His Essence Is Thinking -- 2. Thoughtless Brutes -- 3. Descartes’ Proof that He Is Essentially a Non-Material Thing -- 4. Behaviorism as a Philosophy of Psychology -- 5. The Privacy of Experience -- 6. Wittgenstein on the Nature of Mind -- 7. The Myth of Cognitive Processes and Structures -- 8. Moore and Wittgenstein on the Sense of “I know ” -- 9. The Groundlessness of Belief -- Index
Summary: This book brings together nine major essays in the philosophy of mind that the author has written since his last collection, Knowledge and Certainty, was published in 1963. Writing in a clear, nontechnical style that will appeal to the nonprofessional, Professor Malcolm presents and defends interesting alternatives to common views on important topics in the philosophy of mind.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Descartes’ Proof that His Essence Is Thinking -- 2. Thoughtless Brutes -- 3. Descartes’ Proof that He Is Essentially a Non-Material Thing -- 4. Behaviorism as a Philosophy of Psychology -- 5. The Privacy of Experience -- 6. Wittgenstein on the Nature of Mind -- 7. The Myth of Cognitive Processes and Structures -- 8. Moore and Wittgenstein on the Sense of “I know ” -- 9. The Groundlessness of Belief -- Index

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This book brings together nine major essays in the philosophy of mind that the author has written since his last collection, Knowledge and Certainty, was published in 1963. Writing in a clear, nontechnical style that will appeal to the nonprofessional, Professor Malcolm presents and defends interesting alternatives to common views on important topics in the philosophy of mind.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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