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Human Thought

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  1. Joseph Mendola

    1. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

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Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 70)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Joseph Mendola
      Pages 1-22

  3. Content

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. From Content to Representational Content

      • Joseph Mendola
      Pages 25-50

    4. Basic Content and Experience

      • Joseph Mendola
      Pages 77-95

    5. Microevents

      • Joseph Mendola
      Pages 97-123

    6. Phenomenal Elements

      • Joseph Mendola
      Pages 125-141

    7. Causal Elements

      • Joseph Mendola
      Pages 143-165

  4. Conceiving Agents

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Thoughts

      • Joseph Mendola
      Pages 169-200

    3. Thought Skepticism

      • Joseph Mendola
      Pages 201-228

    4. Words and Meaning

      • Joseph Mendola
      Pages 229-255

    5. Resources

      • Joseph Mendola
      Pages 257-277

    6. Experience and Quasi-Experience

      • Joseph Mendola
      Pages 279-301

    7. Thought Beyond Experience

      • Joseph Mendola
      Pages 303-326

  5. Experience and Plausibility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 327-327
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    2. Phenomenal Objects

      • Joseph Mendola
      Pages 329-347

    3. Mere Phenomenal Experience

      • Joseph Mendola
      Pages 349-367

    4. Causal Experience

      • Joseph Mendola
      Pages 369-387
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About this book

Conscious experience and thought content are customarily treated as distinct problems. This book argues that they are not. Part One develops a chastened empiricist theory of content, which cedes to experience a crucial role in rooting the contents of thoughts, but deploys an expanded conception of experience and of the ways in which contents may be rooted in experience. Part Two shows how, were the world as we experience it to be, our neurophysiology would be sufficient to constitute capacities for the range of intuitive thoughts recognized by Part One. Part Three argues that physics has shown that our experience is not veridical, and that this implies that no completely plausible account of how we have thoughts is comprehensible by humans. Yet this leaves thoughts not especially suspect, because such considerations also imply that all positive and contingent human conceptions of anything are false.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

    Joseph Mendola

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Human Thought

  • Authors: Joseph Mendola

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5660-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4401-8Published: 28 February 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4402-5Published: 28 February 1997

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-5660-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0921-8599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 481

  • Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics, Artificial Intelligence, Semantics

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