{"product_id":"the-mundane-matter-of-the-mental-language-hardback-9780521370318","title":"The Mundane Matter of the Mental Language (Hardback) 9780521370318","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Mundane Matter of the Mental Language\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChristopher Maloney offers an explanation of the fundamental nature of thought.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJ. Christopher Maloney (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521370318, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 November 1989\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 1 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.54 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The book is lively, well informed, and very well written. It will be of considerable interest to philosophers and cognitive scientists concerned with mental representation, intentionality, consciousness and rationality.\"   Stephen P. Stich, University of California, San Diego\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eChristopher Maloney offers an explanation of the fundamental nature of thought. He posits the idea that thinking involves the processing of mental representations that take the form of sentences in a covert language encoded in the mind. The theory relies upon traditional categories of psychology, including such notions as belief and desire. It also draws upon and thus inherits some of the problems of artificial intelligence which it attempts to answer, including what bestows meaning or content upon a thought and what distinguishes genuine from simulated thought.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Mental Language: 1. Mentalistic constructs\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Representational Theory of the Mind\u003cbr\u003e 3. Folk psychology and Representationalism\u003cbr\u003e 4. Sententialism\u003cbr\u003e 5. The regress of embedded agents\u003cbr\u003e 6. Notation and content\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Frame Problem and Scripts: 7. Combinatorial explosion\u003cbr\u003e 8. The range and context of scripts\u003cbr\u003e 9. Modular cognitive systems\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Intelligence, Rationality and Behavior: 10. Intelligent behavior and brute reaction\u003cbr\u003e 11. Rationality and behavior\u003cbr\u003e 12. Causal waywardness\u003cbr\u003e 13. Empirical tests of rationality\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Along the Cognitive Spectrum: 14. The scope of Sententialism\u003cbr\u003e 15. From infant to adult\u003cbr\u003e 16. Doxastic holism and Mentalese ambiguity\u003cbr\u003e Part V. The Matter of Intentionality: 17. Searle's argument against Artificial Intelligence\u003cbr\u003e 18. Artificial Intelligence at bay\u003cbr\u003e 19. Language comprehension and translation\u003cbr\u003e 20. Fragmented agents\u003cbr\u003e 21. Cognitive psychology as a formal theory\u003cbr\u003e 22. The mundane matter of mind\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Fixing the Content of Mental Sentences: 23. Empiricism and mental representations\u003cbr\u003e 24. A causal explanation of sensuous representation\u003cbr\u003e 25. Objections and replies\u003cbr\u003e 26. Sensory doppelgängers\u003cbr\u003e 27. Up from sensation\u003cbr\u003e 28. Meaning and definition\u003cbr\u003e Part VII. The Quality of Consciousness: 28. Functional accounts of consciousness\u003cbr\u003e 29. Could qualia be non-psychological?\u003cbr\u003e 30. Sententialism and consciousness\u003cbr\u003e 31. Sensation and qualia\u003cbr\u003e 32. Moods\u003cbr\u003e 33. The subjectivity of consciousness\u003cbr\u003e 34. What it is like to be different\u003cbr\u003e 35. Artificial consciousness\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; political philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; political philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20political%20philosophy%20%5BHPS%5D%22\"\u003eHPS\u003c\/a\u003e], Philosophy of language [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy of language\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20of%20language%20%5BCFA%5D%22\"\u003eCFA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007145627928,"sku":"9780521370318","price":85.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521370318_f6de0288-e80d-4038-9a3b-1bf26caad01d.gif?v=1691375841","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-mundane-matter-of-the-mental-language-hardback-9780521370318","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}