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Seul l'Occident moderne s'est attaché à bâtir l'opposition, donc la discontinuité supposée, entre la nature et la culture. L'anthropologie perpétue dans la définition même de son objet – la diversité culturelle sur fond d'universalité naturelle – une opposition dont les peuples qu'elle étudie ont fait l'économie.Philippe Descola, professeur au Collège de France, propose ici, à partir de traits communs qui se répondent d'un continent à l'autre, une approche nouvelle des manières de répartir continuités et discontinuités entre l'homme et son environnement : le totémisme, qui souligne la continuité matérielle et morale entre humains et non-humains ; l'analogisme, qui postule entre les éléments du monde un réseau de discontinuités structuré par des relations de correspondances ; l'animisme, qui prête aux non-humains l'intériorité des humains, mais les en différencie par le corps ; le naturalisme qui nous rattache aux non-humains par les continuités matérielles et nous en sépare par l'aptitude culturelle.Chaque mode d'identification autorise des configurations singulières qui redistribuent les existants dans des collectifs aux frontières bien différentes de celles que les sciences humaines nous ont rendues familières. C'est à une recomposition radicale de ces sciences que ce livre invite.
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Featuring thirteen specially commissioned chapters on core subjects, The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Mind is an essential tool for all those studying and working in the field, purpose-built for use on courses in this area of philosophy. Beginning with 'How to Use this Book' the Companion includes overviews of perennial problems and new directions in contemporary philosophy of mind, an extended glossary of terms for quick reference, a detailed chronology, a guide to research for ongoing study and a comprehensive bibliography of key classic and contemporary publications in the philosophy of mind. From new questions concerning qualia, representation, embodiment and cognition to fresh thinking about the long-standing problems of physicalism, dualism, personal identity and mental causation, this book is an authoritative survey of the latest research from experts in one of the most active areas of philosophical inquiry.
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How many types of sui generis, irreducible, basic, primitive phenomenology do we have to posit to just be able to describe the stream of consciousness? This book offers a first general attempt to answer this question in contemporary philosophy. It develops a unified framework for systematically addressing this question and applies it to six controversial types of phenomenal experience, namely, those associated with thought and judgment, will and agency, pure apprehension, emotion, moral thought and experience, and the experience of freedom.
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Tim Button explores the relationship between words and world; between semantics and scepticism. A certain kind of philosopher—the external realist—worries that appearances might be radically deceptive; we might all, for example, be brains in vats, stimulated by an infernal machine. But anyone who entertains the possibility of radical deception must also entertain a further worry: that all of our thoughts are totally contentless. That worry is just incoherent. We cannot, then, be external realists, who worry about the possibility of radical deception. Equally, though, we cannot be internal realists, who reject all possibility of deception. We must position ourselves somewhere between internal realism and external realism, but we cannot hope to say exactly where. We must be realists, for what that is worth, and realists within limits. In establishing these claims, Button critically explores and develops several themes from Hilary Putnam's work: the model-theoretic arguments; the connection between truth and justification; the brain-in-vat argument; semantic externalism; and conceptual relativity. The Limits of Realism establishes the continued significance of these topics for all philosophers interested in mind, logic, language, or the possibility of metaphysics.
Philosophical anthropology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy of mind --- Realism
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« Il arrive quelquefois qu'une idée traverse l'espace de notre tête […]. Nous étions en voiture et nous parlions Roberto et moi. Il me demandait ce que j'allais raconter à la conférence où nous nous rendions. En esquissant une réponse, je m'aperçus brusquement que j'étais en train de décrire une sorte de machine. Comment et de quoi elle était fabriquée, son utilité, ce qu'elle résolvait de la question, ce qui lui manquait, ce que j'attendais d'elle. Et, à partir de là, m'apercevant aussi que les essais dits “théoriques” que j'avais commis jusque-là étaient eux aussi des machines, en quelque sorte. » Suivant la piste des machines depuis les présocratiques jusqu'à l'art contemporain en passant par Coriscus, le paysage ou encore la « com. », Anne Cauquelin nous invite à observer les mécanismes de celles – théoriques ou concrètes – qui nous aident (ou nous contraignent) à nous faire une certaine idée du monde. Et qui produisent des restes.
Knowledge, Theory of. --- Philosophy of mind. --- Representation (Philosophy)
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Philosophy of mind. --- Adaptability (Psychology) --- Brain --- Philosophy. --- Malabou, Catherine.
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We live at the dawn of a revolution in human interrelatedness. Technological advancements in communication demand interrelatedness not only with family, friends and colleagues but also with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn connections. Perhaps this demand has contributed to the resurgence of efforts toward unity across social divisions toward social justice. But even as forces for solidarity are at work in the world, forces against solidarity threaten our existence and some forces work both for and against solidarity. One such force is the very nature of our humanity and in particular the role o
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How do we understand other people’s minds? This question has been discussed intensively in the theory of mind debate. ‘Theory of mind’ is defined as the capacity to attribute mental states to oneself and to others and to make use of that capacity in behavior understanding. This book offers a critical analysis of a variety of tasks that have been conducted to investigate the development of a theory of mind in children. The heart of the book is a pluralistic account of social understanding. Rather than relying on a default procedure of social understanding (e.g., theory or simulation), individuals understand the behavior of another person in various ways dependent on their cognitive competencies and the socio-situational context. As a rule of thumb, individuals are prone to make use of that procedure that is cognitively least effortful to them in a given context. Covering a wide range of studies, the implications of the pluralistic account are discussed with respect to culture and psychopathology. Finally, the book points to the role that social interaction may play in social understanding.
Philosophy of mind. --- Social perception in children. --- Social perception.
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