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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 ISSN 1468-0017.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0017.00067

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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
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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1998Published
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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