Pieces of Mind
Subtitle: The Proper Domain of Psychological Predicates
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780198809524
Subjects: Biology, philosophy; Psycholinguistics
Description: Carrie Figdor presents a critical assessment of how psychological terms are used to describe the non-human biological world. She argues against the anthropocentric attitude which takes human cognition as the standard against which non-human capacities are measured, and offers an alternative basis for naturalistic explanation of the mind.