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Understanding People: Normativity and Rationalizing Explanation - Hardcover

Millar, Alan

 
9780199254408: Understanding People: Normativity and Rationalizing Explanation

Synopsis

Original treatment of an important topic in the philosophy of mind.

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Review

a clear, persuasive, interesting and thorough book. (Adam Morton, Mind)

It is one of the virtues of the book that it brings together a number of related questions from different areas of philosophy that the academic division of labour increasingly forces professional philosophers to address in artificial (and often unhappy) isolation. . . . Millar's approach is professional, scholarly, and judicious. The book . . . includes detailed and subtle treatments of a number of issues . . . including the nature of normativity in general, the reflexive character of belief and intention, and the theory versus simulation debate in the philosophy of mind. . . Understanding People will be of great interest to most philosophers of mind, as well as to those working on practical and theoretical reasoning. (Hallvard Lillehammer, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)

About the Author

Alan Millar is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling.

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