Explaining Attitudes : A Practical Approach to the Mind

Name: Explaining Attitudes
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521420532
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ISBN: 9780521420532

by Lynne Rudder Baker

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy

ISBN-10 0521420539

ISBN-13 9780521420532

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 27th, 1995

Print length 262 Pages

Weight 421 grams

Dimensions 22.40 x 14.30 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge Ethics & moral philosophy Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge Ethics and moral philosophy

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Explaining Attitudes develops an account of propositional attitudes - practical realism. Practical realism is an antidote to the now-dominant 'Standard View', according to which beliefs, if there are any, are identical to or are constituted by brain states. Practical realism takes beliefs to be states of whole persons, rather like states of health.

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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