Re-Thinking the Cogito: Naturalism, Reason and the Venture of Thought

by Christopher Norris

Book Overview

Re-Thinking the Cogito seeks to combine a strongly naturalistic with a distinctively rationalist perspective on some nowadays much-discussed issues in philosophy of mind. Against the common view that they involve downright incompatible conceptions of mind, knowledge and ethics it seeks to unite a naturalism that draws on recent advances in neurophysiology and cognitive science with an outlook that gives full weight to those normative values at...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441118217
• ISBN13: 9781441118219
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"