The Objects of Thought

The Objects of Thought
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 195
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780199682744
ISBN-13 : 0199682747
Rating : 4/5 (747 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Objects of Thought by : Tim Crane

Download or read book The Objects of Thought written by Tim Crane and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Crane addresses the ancient question of how it is possible to think about what does not exist. He argues that the representation of the non-existent is a pervasive feature of our thought about the world, and that to understand thought's representational power ('intentionality') we need to understand the representation of the non-existent.


The Objects of Thought Related Books

The Objects of Thought
Language: en
Pages: 195
Authors: Tim Crane
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Tim Crane addresses the ancient question of how it is possible to think about what does not exist. He argues that the representation of the non-existent is a pe
Objects of Thought
Language: en
Pages: 175
Authors: Arthur N. Prior
Categories: Belief and doubt
Type: BOOK - Published: 1971 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Representational Content and the Objects of Thought
Language: en
Pages: 215
Authors: Nicholas Rimell
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-30 - Publisher: Springer Nature

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book defends a novel view of mental representation—of how, as thinkers, we represent the world as being. The book serves as a response to two problems in
Objects of Time
Language: en
Pages: 211
Authors: K. Birth
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-10 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time—it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ti
Thinking with Objects
Language: en
Pages: 418
Authors: Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-11-17 - Publisher: JHU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

'Bertoloni Meli reexamines such major texts as Galileo's Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, Descartes' Principles of Philosophy, and Newton's Principia, and