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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      10 December 2009
      10 October 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511597992
      9780521564090
      9780521035699
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597992
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.548kg, 360 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.486kg, 360 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy of Mind and Language, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    Philosophy: General Interest, Philosophy of Mind and Language, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    This book offers a comprehensive and broadly rationalist theory of the mind which continually tests itself against experimental results and clinical data. Taking issue with Empiricists who believe that all knowledge arises from experience and that perception is a non-cognitive state, Norton Nelkin argues that perception is cognitive, constructive and proposition-like. Further, as against Externalists who believe that our thoughts have meaning only insofar as they advert to the world outside our minds, he argues that meaning is determined 'in the head'. Finally, he offers an account of how we acquire some of our most basic concepts, including the concept of the self and that of other minds.

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    "...the book addresses many novel questions in imaginative and striking ways." Robert J. Stanton, Philosophy in Review

    "...this is a heroic work of scholarship, in the most literal sense. It is also a very enlightening one." Don Ross, Dialogue

    "...thoughtful, rich, and extremely ambitious ..." Janet Levin, The Philosophical Review

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