Culture and Cultural Entities Toward a New Unity of Science /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Margolis, Joseph. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Synthese Library ; 170
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Metaphysics.; Ontology.; Philosophy of mind.; Social sciences > Philosophy.; Social sciences > Methodology.; Philosophy.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Philosophy of Mind.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2554-8

Culture and Cultural Entities provides an original philosophical analysis of the nature and explanation of cultural phenomena, with special attention to ontology and methodology. It addresses in depth such topics as: the relation between physical and biological nature and cultural phenomena; the ana...

Table of Contents:

• Editors Preface
• Preface
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Nature, Culture, and Persons
• 2. The Concept of Consciousness
• 3. Animal and Human Minds
• 4. Action and Causality
• 5. Puzzles about the Causal Explanation of Human Actions
• 6. Cognitivism and the Problem of Explaining Human Intelligence
• 7. Wittgenstein and Natural Languages: An Alternative to Rationalist and Empiricist Theories
• 8. Afterwords (2009)
• Index.