Pieces of Mind
Author | : Carrie Figdor |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2018 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780198809524 |
ISBN-13 | : 0198809522 |
Rating | : 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Download or read book Pieces of Mind written by Carrie Figdor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carrie Figdor presents a critical assessment of how psychological terms are used to describe the non-human biological world. She argues against the anthropocentric attitude which takes human cognition as the standard against which non-human capacities are measured, and offers an alternative basis for naturalistic explanation of the mind.