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Hume Variations (Paperback, New edition)
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Hume Variations (Paperback, New edition)
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Hume? Yes, David Hume, that's who Jerry Fodor looks to for help in
advancing our understanding of the mind. Fodor claims his Treatise
of Human Nature as the foundational document of cognitive science:
it launched the project of constructing an empirical psychology on
the basis of a representational theory of mind. Going back to this
work after more than 250 years we find that Hume is remarkably
perceptive about the components and structure that a theory of mind
requires. Careful study of the Treatise helps us to see what's
amiss with much twentieth-century philosophy of mind, and to get on
the right track. Hume says in the Treatise that his main project is
to construct a theory of human nature and, in particular, a theory
of the mind. Hume Variations examines his account of cognition and
how it is grounded in his 'theory of ideas'. Fodor discusses such
key topics as the distinction between 'simple' and 'complex' ideas,
the thesis that an idea is some kind of picture, and the roles that
'association' and 'imagination' play in cognitive processes. He
argues that the theory of ideas, as Hume develops it, is both
historically and ideologically continuous with the representational
theory of mind as it is now widely endorsed by cognitive
scientists. This view of Hume is explicitly opposed to recent
discussions by critics who hold that the theory of ideas is the
Achilles heel of his philosophy and that he would surely have
abandoned it if only he had read Wittgenstein carefully. You don't
have to know much about Hume to enjoy this inventively argued,
provocative, and stimulating defence of the representational theory
of mind-which is looking increasingly hard to resist. LINES OF
THOUGHT Philosophy books don't need to be hundreds of pages long to
make a substantial contribution to the subject. This new series
presents original works by leading philosophers at an affordable
price and a readable length. Series Editors Peter Ludlow
(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Scott Sturgeon (Birkbeck
College, London)
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