The Measure of Mind: Propositional Attitudes and Their Attribution

by Robert J. Matthews

Book Overview

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 behaviour. 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 behaviour. Robert J. Matthews argues that this view does not enjoy the theoretical or the empirical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199585539
• ISBN13: 9780199585533
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"