Human Action, Consciousness, and Problems of Representation
Publisher: Oxford University Press India
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780198097266
Subjects: Human behavior; Consciousness; Psycholinguistics
Description: A philosophical analysis of ordinary concepts like human action and consciousness, and how they get represented in our language. It examines the philosophical history of the issues that emerge and places the discussion across different paradigms, and brings into contemporary focus some problems like intentionality, relation between mind, body and structure of explanations.