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Natural Philosophy - From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty (Hardcover)
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Natural Philosophy - From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures
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Paul Thagard uses new accounts of brain mechanisms and social
interactions to forge theories of mind, knowledge, reality,
morality, justice, meaning, and the arts. Natural Philosophy brings
new methods for analyzing concepts, understanding values, and
achieving coherence. It shows how to unify the humanities with the
cognitive and social sciences. How can people know what is real and
strive to make the world better? Philosophy is the attempt to
answer general questions about the nature of knowledge, reality,
and values. Natural Philosophy pursues these questions by drawing
heavily on the sciences and finds no room for supernatural entities
such as souls, gods, and possible worlds. It provides original
accounts of the traditional branches of philosophy, including
epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. Rather than
reducing the humanities to the sciences, this book displays fertile
interconnections that show that philosophical questions and
artistic practices can be much better understood by considering how
human brains operate and interact in social contexts. The sciences
and the humanities are interdependent, because both the natural and
social sciences cannot avoid questions about methods and values
that are primarily the province of philosophy. This book belongs to
a trio that includes Brain-Mind: From Neurons to Consciousness and
Creativity and Mind-Society: From Brains to Social Sciences and
Professions. They can be read independently, but together they make
up a Treatise on Mind and Society that provides a unified and
comprehensive treatment of the cognitive sciences, social sciences,
professions, and humanities.
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