The World in the Head

by Robert Cummins

The World in the Head collects the best of Robert Cummins' papers on mental representation and psychological explanation. Running through these papers are a pair of themes: that explaining the mind requires functional analysis, not subsumption under "psychological laws," and that the propositional attitudes--belief, desire, intention--and their interactions, while real, are not the key to understanding the mind at a fundamental level. Taking these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199548048
• ISBN13: 9780199548040
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"