Description
Book SynopsisAddressing philosophical questions of mental representation, this title presents a different approach to some of the most enduring topics in philosophy. This title deals with the nature of description, the status of the external world, action theory, the philosophy of history, and the philosophical status of psychoanalytic explanation.
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Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction: Philosophy, Representation, and History
1. Representational Properties and Mind/Body Identity
2. The Representational Character ofldeas and the Problem of the External World
3. Basic Actions and Basic Concepts
4. Action, Knowledge, and Representation
5. Outline of a Theory of Sentential States
6. Depiction and Description
7. Freudian Explanations and the Language of the Unconscious
8. History and Representation
9. The Decline and Fall of the Analytical Philosophy of History
10. The Body/Body Problem
11. Beautiful Science and the Future of Criticism
12. In Their Own Voice: Philosophical Writing and Actual Experience
Index
