06205cam a2200805 a 4500 ocn847532555 OCoLC 20171106101756.0 m o d cr ||||||||||| 130606s2013 nju o 001 0 eng 2013022957 9781118609064 (ePub) 1118609069 (ePub) 9781118609040 (MobiPocket) 1118609042 (MobiPocket) 9781118609057 (Adobe PDF) 1118609050 (Adobe PDF) 9781118609033 1118609034 1444332473 9781444332476 9781118651216 1118651219 9781444332476 (cloth) AU@ 000053306131 CHNEW 000611480 DEBBG BV041292251 DEBBG BV041908989 DKDLA 820120-katalog:000664704 NLGGC 363372024 NZ1 15341714 NZ1 16062220 AU@ 000058372505 DEBBG BV043396001 (OCoLC)847532555 (OCoLC)857070580 (OCoLC)961635304 (OCoLC)962648126 (OCoLC)966474087 DLC eng pn DLC YDX EBLCP N$T IDEBK MHW DG1 CUS CUI MEAUC YDXCP E7B OCLCF COO DEBBG OCLCQ LOA pcc MAIN BD450 PHI 010000 bisacsh 128/.3 23 Hacker, P. M. S. (Peter Michael Stephan) The intellectual powers : a study of human nature / P.M.S. Hacker. [electronic resource] Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley/Blackwell, 2013. 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes index. Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Project; Prolegomena; 1: Consciousness as the Mark of the Mental; 1. Consciousness as a mark of modernity; 2. The genealogy of the concept of consciousness; 3. The analytic of consciousness; 4. The early modern philosophical conception of consciousness; 5. The dialectic of consciousness I; 6. The contemporary philosophical conception of consciousness; 7. The dialectic of consciousness II; 8. The illusions of self-consciousness; 2: Intentionality as the Mark of the Mental; 1. Intentionality; 2. Intentional 'objects' 3. The central sun: the relation of thought to reality4. The first circle: what do we believe (hope, suspect, etc.)?; 5. The second circle: the relation of language to reality; 6. The third circle: the relation of thought to language; 7. The fourth circle: the epistemology of intentionality; 8. The fifth circle: meaning and understanding; 3: Mastery of a Language as the Mark of a Mind; 1. A language-using animal; 2. Linguistic communication; 3. Knowing a language; 4. Meaning something; 5. Understanding and interpreting; 6. Meaning and use. 7. The dialectic of understanding: the 'mystery' of understanding new sentencesPART I: The Cognitive and Doxastic Powers; 4: Knowledge; 1. The value of knowledge; 2. The grammatical groundwork; 3. The semantic field; 4. What knowledge is not; 5. Certainty; 6. Analyses of knowledge; 7. Knowledge and ability; 8. Knowing-how; 9. What is knowledge? The role of 'know' in human discourse; 5: Belief; 1. The web of belief; 2. The grammatical groundwork; 3. The surrounding landscape; 4. Voluntariness and responsibility for belief; 5. Belief and feelings; 6. Belief and dispositions. 7. Belief and mental states8. Why believing something cannot be a brain state; 9. What is belief? The role of 'believe' in human discourse; 6: Knowledge, Belief and the Epistemology of Belief; 1. Knowledge and belief; 2. The epistemology of belief; 3. Non-standard cases: self-deception and unconscious beliefs; 7: Sensation and Perception; 1. The cognitive powers of the senses; 2. Sensation; 3. Perception and sensation; 4. Sensation, feeling and tactile perception; 8: Perception; 1. Perceptual organs, the senses and proper sensibles; 2. Perceptual powers: cognition and volition. 3. The classical causal theory of perception4. The modern causal theory of perception; 9: Memory; 1. Memory as a form of knowledge; 2. The objects of memory; 3. The faculty and its actualities; 4. Forms of memory; 5. Further conceptual links and contrasts; 6. The dialectic of memory I: the Aristotelian legacy; 7. The dialectic of memory II: trace theory; PART II: The Cogitative Powers; 10: Thought and Thinking; 1. Floundering without an overview; 2. The varieties of thinking; 3. Is thinking an activity?; 4. What do we think in?; 5. Thought, language and the language of thought. The Intellectual Powers is a philosophical investigation into the cognitive and cogitative powers of mankind. It develops a connective analysis of our powers of consciousness, intentionality, mastery of language, knowledge, belief, certainty, sensation, perception, memory, thought, and imagination, by one of Britain's leading philosophers. It is an essential guide and handbook for philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive neuroscientists. The culmination of 45 years of reflection on the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the nature of the human personNo. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. Philosophical anthropology. Philosophy of mind. Thought and thinking. PHILOSOPHY Movements Humanism. bisacsh Philosophical anthropology. fast (OCoLC)fst01060766 Philosophy of mind. fast (OCoLC)fst01060840 Thought and thinking. fast (OCoLC)fst01150249 Electronic books. Electronic books. local Print version: Hacker, P.M.S. (Peter Michael Stephan). Intellectual powers. Hoboken : Wiley, 2013 9781444332476 (DLC) 2013016694 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118609033 Wiley Online Library ddc BK 206811 206811