Rules, Reason, and Self-Knowledge / Julia Tanney.
Tanney, Julia, author.
2013
BD418.3 .T36 2012
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Title Rules, Reason, and Self-Knowledge / Julia Tanney.
Author Tanney, Julia, author.
ISBN 9780674067837
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067837
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
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Description 1 online resource (328 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/harvard.9780674067837 doi
Call Number BD418.3 .T36 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 128/.2
Summary Julia Tanney offers a sustained criticism of today's canon in philosophy of mind, which conceives the workings of the rational mind as the outcome of causal interactions between mental states that have their bases in the brain. With its roots in physicalism and functionalism, this widely accepted view provides the philosophical foundation for the cardinal tenet of the cognitive sciences: that cognition is a form of information-processing. Rules, Reason, and Self-Knowledge presents a challenge not only to the cognitivist approach that has dominated philosophy and the special sciences for the last fifty years but, more broadly, to metaphysical-empirical approaches to the study of the mind. Responding to a tradition that owes much to the writings of Davidson, early Putnam, and Fodor, Tanney challenges this orthodoxy on its own terms. In untangling its internal inadequacies, starting with the paradoxes of irrationality, she arrives at a view these philosophers were keen to rebut-one with affinities to the work of Ryle and Wittgenstein and all but invisible to those working on the cutting edge of analytic philosophy and mind research today. This is the view that rational explanations are embedded in "thick" descriptions that are themselves sophistications upon ever ascending levels of discourse, or socio-linguistic practices. Tanney argues that conceptual cartography rather than metaphysical-scientific explanation is the basic tool for understanding the nature of the mind. Rules, Reason, and Self-Knowledge clears the path for a return to the world-involving, circumstance-dependent, normative practices where the rational mind has its home.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
1. De-Individualizing Norms of Rationality (1995)
2. Normativity and Thought (1999)
3. Playing the Rule-Following Game (2000)
4. Real Rules (2008)
5. Why Reasons May Not Be Causes (1995)
6. Reason-Explanation and the Contents of the Mind (2005)
7. Reasons as Non-Causal, Context-Placing Explanations (2009)
8. Pain, Polio, and Pride: Some Reflections on "Becausal" Explanations
9. How To Resist Mental Representations (1998)
10. On The Conceptual, Psychological, And Moral Status Of Zombies, Swamp-Beings, And Other "Behaviorally Indistinguishable" Creatures (2004)
11. Conceptual Analysis, Theory Construction, and Philosophical Elucidation in the Philosophy of Mind
12. Ryle's Regress and the Philosophy of Cognitive Science (2011)
13. Some Constructivist Thoughts about Self-Knowledge (1996)
14. Self-Knowledge, Normativity, and Construction (2002)
15. Speaking One's Mind (2007)
16. Conceptual Amorphousness, Reasons, and Causes
Acknowledgments
Provenance of Essays
Index

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