Philosophical Papers: Volume 1, Human Agency and LanguageCambridge University Press, 28. mar. 1985 - 294 sider Charles Taylor has been one of the most original and influential figures in contemporary philosophy: his 'philosophical anthropology' spans an unusually wide range of theoretical interests and draws creatively on both Anglo-American and Continental traditions in philosophy. A selection of his published papers is presented here in two volumes, structured to indicate the direction and essential unity of the work. He starts from a polemical concern with behaviourism and other reductionist theories (particularly in psychology and the philosophy of language) which aim to model the study of man on the natural sciences. This leads to a general critique of naturalism, its historical development and its importance for modern culture and consciousness; and that in turn points, forward to a positive account of human agency and the self, the constitutive role of language and value, and the scope of practical reason. The volumes jointly present some two decades of work on these fundamental themes, and convey strongly the tenacity, verve and versatility of the author in grappling with them. They will interest a very wide range of philosophers and students of the human sciences. |
Indhold
Introduction | 1 |
AGENCY AND THE SELF | 13 |
What is human agency? | 15 |
Selfinterpreting animals | 45 |
Hegels philosophy of mind | 77 |
The concept of a person | 97 |
PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY AND MIND | 115 |
Peaceful coexistence in psychology | 117 |
Almindelige termer og sætninger
action activity agent alternative animals anthropocentric articulate awareness B. F. Skinner basic behaviour capacity Centaurans characterize claim cognitive psychology computing conception concerns constitutive context contrast course crucial culture defined desires dimension disengaged distinction domain dualism emotions empiricism epistemological essential example experience explanation expression expressivism expressivist fact feeling formulation function genetic psychology give goals grasp Hegel hence hermeneutical human ideas identify important insight instance interpretation involves judgement kind language linguistic machine matter mechanistic mechanistic theory modern moral motivation nature neurophysiological notion object ourselves perhaps person philosophy philosophy of mind physical Piaget plausible psychoanalysis public space qualitative question radical choice recognize relation representation scientific scientism second-order desires seems self-interpreting self-understanding sense shame shape situation speech speech acts strong evaluation structure subject-referring T-theory talk theory of meaning things thought tion transformations underlying understand understood words
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