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Explaining Attitudes: A Practical Approach to the Mind

Name: Explaining Attitudes: A Practical Approach to the Mind
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521420532
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EXPLAINING ATTITUDES

Contributor(s): Baker, Lynne Rudder Author , Sosa, Ernest Editor , Dancy, Jonathan Editor Format: Hardback

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ISBN	9780521420532
Subtitle	EXPLAINING ATTITUDES
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Publication date	August 1995
Language	English
MRP	£65.00 GBP
Page count	262
Item weight	100 g

Explaining Attitudes offers a timely and 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. 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 tries to interpret beliefs as either brain states or immaterial souls is a false dichotomy. Practical realism takes beliefs to be states of 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.

Explaining Attitudes: A Practical Approach to the Mind

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Baker, Lynne Rudder Author

Sosa, Ernest Editor

Dancy, Jonathan Editor

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