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How Words Help Us Think - by Nancy Salay (Hardcover)

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  • A capacity to act for reasons is a key indicator of intelligence.
  • About the Author: Nancy Salay is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and School of Computing at Queen's University, Canada.
  • 168 Pages
  • Philosophy, Mind & Body

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About the Book



Provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of the empirical support for the externalist account of intentionality.



Book Synopsis



A capacity to act for reasons is a key indicator of intelligence. A leaf floats this way and that as the wind currents shift, a drone moves up or down with the movements of its controller, but a cognitive agent decides to walk to the store to get some food. This deliberative capacity to think through hypothetical situations, to choose between the grocery store or the restaurant, requires representational intentionality, the ability to think about real and possible situations in the world. According to the mainstream zeitgeist in the cognitive sciences, this capacity exhaustively reduces to lower level processes and, as a consequence, cognitive research has been driven increasingly inwards and downwards to focus on activity at the neural and molecular levels.

Here, Nancy Salay argues that this move is deeply misguided. After revealing the central problems with this internalist idea, Salay puts forward an externalist paradigm of intentionality supported by recent empirical work in neuroscience, computer science, philosophy, animal cognition and developmental psychology. Drawing all of these insights together, she provides a unified framework in which to situate externalist views of intentionality, making progress towards a viable theory of cognition. This is a comprehensive theoretical guide and a valuable empirical resource for those who view cognition through an extended and enactive lens.



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"A tightly argued and superbly clear analysis for why our representational and language capacities should be viewed as cultural and psychological tools that we use to do things in the world, and not innate brain-based capacities that allow us to generate a picture of the world in our heads." --Louise Barrett, Professor of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, Canada



About the Author



Nancy Salay is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and School of Computing at Queen's University, Canada.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.21 Inches (H) x 6.14 Inches (W) x .44 Inches (D)
Weight: .9 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Mind & Body
Genre: Philosophy
Number of Pages: 168
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Hardcover
Author: Nancy Salay
Language: English
Street Date: February 6, 2025
TCIN: 1003278493
UPC: 9781350266827
Item Number (DPCI): 247-43-0320
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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