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Explaining Attitudes

A Practical Approach to the Mind

  • Paperback
  • 264 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 14.1 x 21.5 x 1.9 cm

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Explaining Attitudes offers an important challenge to the dominant conception of belief found in the work of such philosophers as Dretske and Fodor. According to this dominant view beliefs, if they exist at all, are constituted by states of the brain. Lynne Rudder Baker rejects this view and replaces it with a quite different approach - practical realism. Seen from the perspective of practical realism, any argument that interprets beliefs as either brain states or states of immaterial souls is a 'non-starter'. Practical realism takes beliefs to be states of the whole persons, rather like states of health. What a person believes is determined by what a person would do, say and think in various circumstances. Thus beliefs and other attitudes are interwoven into an integrated, commonsensical conception of reality.
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  • Author

    Lynne Rudder Baker (distinguished Professor, University Of Massachusetts, Amherst)

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    January 1995

  • Weight

    323g

  • Page Count

    264

  • Dimensions

    14.1 x 21.5 x 1.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521421904

  • ISBN-10

    052142190X

  • Eden Code

    4575070

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