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Rules, Reason, and Self-Knowledge (Hardcover)
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Rules, Reason, and Self-Knowledge (Hardcover)
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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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