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Explaining Attitudes

Name: Explaining Attitudes
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 02030326
Price: 64.09 EUR
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Author: Lynne Rudder Baker
ISBN: 9780521421904

A Practical Approach to the Mind

Lynne Rudder Baker

Language

English

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Libristo code: 02030326

Publishers Cambridge University Press, January 1995

Explaining Attitudes offers a timely and important challenge to the dominant conception of belief fo... Full description

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Explaining Attitudes offers a timely and important challenge to the dominant conception of belief found in the work of such philosophers as Dretske and Fodor. According to this dominant view beliefs, if they exist at all, are constituted by states of the brain. Lynne Rudder Baker rejects this view and replaces it with a quite different approach - practical realism. Seen from the perspective of practical realism, any argument that interprets beliefs as either brain states or states of immaterial souls is a 'non-starter'. Practical realism takes beliefs to be states of the whole persons, rather like states of health. What a person believes is determined by what a person would do, say and think in various circumstances. Thus beliefs and other attitudes are interwoven into an integrated, commonsensical conception of reality.