Husserl, Intentionality, and Cognitive Science (Bradford Books) [Hardcover]

Hubert L. Dreyfus (Editor), Harrison Hall (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 29, 1982 | Series: Bradford Books

As this book makes clear, current use of data structures such as frames, scripts, and stereotypes in psychology, artificial intelligence, and all the other disciplines now grouped together as Cognitive Science develop ideas already explored by Husserl who believed that the analysis of mental representations was the proper subject of philosophy, psychology, and other disciplines that deal with the mind.

This new anthology will serve as an ideal introduction to phenomenology for analytic philosophers, both as a text and as the single most useful source book on Husserl for cognitive scientists.

An MIT Press/Bradford Book.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This is an important book, showing for the first time the profound connections among three superficially disparate philosophical traditions. It is what has been needed to make Husserl truly accessible and interesting to English-speaking philosophers. In addition, the revealing interplay among transcendental phenomenology, formal semantics, and artificial intelligence is a powerful contribution to Husserl scholarship in its own right."
—John Haugeland, University of Pittsburgh

"Philosophers who, like me, want to know something about the phenomenological tradition, but who don't want to spend their lives on it, will probably find this the indispensible work. Dreyfus is helping to heal some fissures in contemporary philosophy, and he is doing so in the only way that has a chance of working."
—Jerry A. Fodor, MIT

About the Author

Hubert L. Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley.

Harrison Hall is on the philosophy faculty at the University of Delaware.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: The MIT Press (July 29, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0262040654
• ISBN-13: 978-0262040655
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #770,276 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Hubert Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard University, he taught at MIT, before coming to Berkeley in l968. Dreyfus has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and has received research grants from both the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He holds a Doctorate Honoris Causa from Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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