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The Measure of Mind - Propositional Attitudes and their Attribution (Hardcover, New)
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The Measure of Mind - Propositional Attitudes and their Attribution (Hardcover, New)
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The Measure of Mind provides a sustained critique of a widely held
representationalist view of propositional attitudes and their role
in the production of thought and behavior. On this view, having a
propositional attitude is a matter of having an explicit
representation that plays a particular causal/computational role in
the production of thought and behavior. Robert J. Matthews argues
that this view does not enjoy the theoretical or the empirical
support that proponents claim for it; moreover, the view
misconstrues the role of propositional attitude attributions in
cognitive scientific theorizing.
The Measure of Mind goes on to develop an alternative
measurement-theoretic account of propositional attitudes and the
sentences by which we attribute them. On this account, the
sentences by which we attribute propositional attitudes function
semantically like the sentences by which we attribute a quantity of
some physical magnitude (e.g., having a mass of 80 kilos). That is,
in much the same way that we specify a quantity of some physical
magnitude by means of its numerical representative on a measurement
scale, we specify propositional attitude of a given type by means
of its representative in a linguistically-defined measurement
space. Propositional attitudes turn out to be causally efficacious
aptitudes for thought and behavior, not semantically evaluable
mental particulars of some sort. Matthews' measurement-theoretic
account provides a more plausible view of the explanatorily
relevant properties of propositional attitudes, the semantics of
propositional attitude attributions, and the role of such
attributions in computational cognitive scientific theorizing.
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