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Towards a new science of the mind : wide content and the metaphysics of organizational properties in non-linear dynamical models
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Hooker, C. A. and Christensen, Wayne (1998) Towards a new science of the mind : wide content and the metaphysics of organizational properties in non-linear dynamical models. Mind and Language, 13 (1). pp. 98-109. doi:10.1111/1468-0017.00067
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0017.00067
Abstract
Tim van Gelder, following Brandom, Collins and others, uses the so-called wide content of capacities which support social, norm governed activities, such as language, to argue for their anti-natural, abstract, but socially instituted nature and thence for the failure of the entire traditional mind-body discussion as ill-posed. We argue that his former conclusion is wrong, that such properties are naturalisable, complicated organisational properties of the complexly organised, non-linearly interactive systems that human beings are. This analysis also provides principled support, but on other grounds, for van Gelder’s latter conclusion. We outline a new naturalist approach to the organisational capacities of such systems that is intended to ground their biological, cognitive and social characters.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Mind and Language | ||||
| Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing | ||||
| ISSN: | 1468-0017 | ||||
| Official Date: | 1998 | ||||
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| Volume: | 13 | ||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 98-109 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/1468-0017.00067 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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