Freedom of Mind and Other Essays

by Stuart Hampshire

Book Overview

Each of the fourteen essays in this volume is directed to some aspect of these two questions: What are the peculiarities of the concepts that we use to describe and to criticize the mental states and performances of human beings? What are the peculiarities of the knowledge that we may possess of our own mental states and attitudes and of the mental states and attitudes of others? Each of us is both a scientific student of others' beliefs, desires,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691071764
• ISBN13: 9780691071763
• Release Date: May 1971
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.