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Freedom of mind, and other essays

Author
Hampshire, Stuart, 1914-2004
Published
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1971.
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1 online resource (xii, 256 pages).
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Contents
Freedom of mind -- Subjunctive conditionals -- Multiply general sentences -- Dispositions -- Fallacies in moral philosophy -- Ethics: a defense of Aristotle -- Ryle's The Concept of Mind. -- The analogy of feeling -- On referring and intending -- Feeling and expression -- Disposition and memory -- Spinoza and the idea of freedom -- A kind of materialism -- Sincerity and single-mindedness.
Summary
Each of the fourteen essays in this volume is directed to some aspect of these two questions: What are the peculiarities of the concepts that we use to describe and to criticize the mental states and performances of human beings? What are the peculiarities of the knowledge that we may possess of our own mental states and attitudes and of the mental states and attitudes of others? Each of us is both a scientific student of others' beliefs, desires, and attitudes and the responsible author of his own beliefs and attitudes. The center of the freedom-of-mind problem, Professor Hampshire asserts,
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ISBN
9781400869367
1400869366
0691071764
9780691071763
0691070764
9780691070766
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