Having Thought Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind

Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind
By John Haugeland

Harvard University Press
1998-02-27


Book Description:

The unifying theme of these thirteen essays is understanding. What is it? What does it
take to have it? What does it presuppose in what can be understood? In the first group
of essays John Haugeland addresses mind and intelligence. Intelligibility comes to the
fore in a set of "metaphysical" pieces on analog and digital systems and
supervenience. In the third set of papers Haugeland elaborates and then undermines a
battery of common presuppositions about the foundational notions of intentionality and
representation. Finally, the fourth and most recent group of essays confronts the
essential character of understanding in relation to what is understood. The necessary
interdependence between personality and intelligence is developed and explained,
specifically in the conditions of the possibility of objective scientific knowledge.


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Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press; New Ed edition (September 15, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674004159
ISBN-13: 978-0674004153
Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches