A comprehensive overview of Kant's discoveries about the mind for non-specialists.

This is the only contemporary text to cover both epistemology and philosophy of mind at an introductory level. It also serves as a general introduction to philosophy: it discusses the nature and methods of philosophy as well as basic logical tools of the trade. The book is divided into three parts. The first focuses on knowledge, in particular, skepticism and knowledge of the external world, and knowledge of language. The second focuses on mind, including the metaphysics of mind and freedom of will. The third brings together knowledge and mind, discussing knowledge of mind (other minds and our own) and naturalism and how epistemology and philosophy of mind come together in contemporary cognitive science. Throughout, the authors take into account the needs of the beginning philosophy student. They have made very effort to ensure accessibility while preserving accuracy.

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In classical political philosophy (for example, the theories of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau) an important role is assigned to a concept of human nature , and such a concept is also commonly to be found in ordinary arguments about politics and morality. Marx comes to grips with such views j and a number of other aspects of social philosophy, in his early writings, particularly the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and The German Ideology . One of the central themes of this thesis is the attempt to expound and defend the view that Marx presents as an alternative to traditional theories of human nature, his doctrine of essence . A distinction is made between 'the essence of man' and 'man's essence' : the first has to do with questions of philosophical method and it is argued that, for Marx, the second is an historical fact, what I call a developing constant . In order to show how Marx's doctrine of essence typifies his philosophical vision, this thesis also explores the Subject- Object and Individual-Society distinctions, and the meanings of Social Determinism. In passing (though this is of considerable importance), there emerge a number of interesting resemblences between the philosophical attitudes of Marx and Wittgenstein. Of course, this thesis in no way purports to be an exhaustive treatment of Marx's thought. But it does suggest some reasons for thinking that Marx is both more interesting and more defensible when we depart from the usual assessment of his thought as a formal metaphysical system. One of the principle merits of Marx's theory is that it enables us, in a certain sense, to tEfiscend theory and reach what Hegel called "the spiritual daylight of the present.