Of Mind and Other Matters

Informationen zum Autor Nelson Goodman is Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Klappentext Of Mind and Other Matters displays perhaps more vividly than any one of Nelson Goodman s previous books both the remarkable diversity of his concerns and the essential unity of his thought. Many new studies are incorporated in the book, along with material, often now augmented or significantly revised, that he has published during the last decade. As a whole the volume will serve as a concise introduction to Goodman s thought for general readers, and will develop its more recent unfoldings for those philosophers and others who have grown wiser with his books over the years. Goodman transcends the narrow scientism and humanism that set the sciences and the arts in opposition ; his insights derive from both formal philosophy and cognitive psychology. As Hilary Putnam has noted, Goodman prefers concrete and partial progress to grand and ultimately empty visions ; and here are illuminating studies of topics ranging from science policy and museum administration and art education to narrative in literature and painting and the analysis of elusive aspects of literal and metaphorical reference. All these are ramifications of Goodman s profound and often revolutionary philosophical work on the ways we understand and even make the worlds we live in. Zusammenfassung This book displays both the remarkable diversity of Goodman's concerns and the essential unity of his thought. As a whole the volume will serve as a concise introduction to Goodman's thought for general readers, and will develop its more recent unfoldings for those philosophers and others who have grown wiser with his books over the years. Inhaltsverzeichnis I. Thought * Science and Sin * Love and Understanding * Knowing through Seeing * On Reconceiving Cognition * Can Thought be Quoted? * On Thoughts without Words II. Things * Notes on the Well-Made World * On Starmaking * Determined Materialism * Worlds of Individuals III. Reference * Routes of Reference * Metaphor as Moonlighting * Splits and Compounds * Reference in Art * Depiction as Denotation * Statements and Pictures * About Truth About IV. Art in Theory * Twisted Tales * The Telling and the Told * Fiction for Five Fingers * Three Types of Realism * On Being in Style * On Symptoms of the Aesthetic * Virtue Confined * On the Identity of Works of Art * Implementation of the Arts V. Art in Action * Notes from the Underground * Explorations in Art Education * A Message from Mars * Art and Ideas * The End of the Museum? * Appendix: Conversation with Frans Boenders and Mia Gosselin * Sources and Acknowledgments * Name Index * Subject Index ...

Autorentext
Nelson Goodman is Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

Klappentext

Of Mind and Other Matters displays perhaps more vividly than any one of Nelson Goodman s previous books both the remarkable diversity of his concerns and the essential unity of his thought.

Many new studies are incorporated in the book, along with material, often now augmented or significantly revised, that he has published during the last decade. As a whole the volume will serve as a concise introduction to Goodman s thought for general readers, and will develop its more recent unfoldings for those philosophers and others who have grown wiser with his books over the years.

Goodman transcends the narrow scientism and humanism that set the sciences and the arts in opposition ; his insights derive from both formal philosophy and cognitive psychology. As Hilary Putnam has noted, Goodman prefers concrete and partial progress to grand and ultimately empty visions ; and here are illuminating studies of topics ranging from science policy and museum administration and art education to narrative in literature and painting and the analysis of elusive aspects of literal and metaphorical reference. All these are ramifications of Goodman s profound and often revolutionary philosophical work on the ways we understand and even make the worlds we live in.

Zusammenfassung
This book displays both the remarkable diversity of Goodman's concerns and the essential unity of his thought. As a whole the volume will serve as a concise introduction to Goodman's thought for general readers, and will develop its more recent unfoldings for those philosophers and others who have grown wiser with his books over the years.

Inhalt

I. Thought * Science and Sin * Love and Understanding * Knowing through Seeing * On Reconceiving Cognition * Can Thought be Quoted? * On Thoughts without Words II. Things * Notes on the Well-Made World * On Starmaking * Determined Materialism * Worlds of Individuals III. Reference * Routes of Reference * Metaphor as Moonlighting * Splits and Compounds * Reference in Art * Depiction as Denotation * Statements and Pictures * About Truth About IV. Art in Theory * Twisted Tales * The Telling and the Told * Fiction for Five Fingers * Three Types of Realism * On Being in Style * On Symptoms of the Aesthetic * Virtue Confined * On the Identity of Works of Art * Implementation of the Arts V. Art in Action * Notes from the Underground * Explorations in Art Education * A Message from Mars * Art and Ideas * The End of the Museum? * Appendix: Conversation with Frans Boenders and Mia Gosselin * Sources and Acknowledgments * Name Index * Subject Index