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9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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insight and no illusion!
Denise la Sala, Dr Hacker will have your guts for a necktie! This is an important work which exposes the many underlying confusions of contemporary philosophy of mind. Our willingness to cleave to a picture of language which wrongly sees all sentences as descriptions leads to profound misunderstandings, which are uncovered here with devastating clarity. A must for anyone...
Published on June 11, 2004
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3 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
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A work that will no doubt please the self-important...
... Wittgenstein intelligentsia. The author is so arrogant and pretentious that in one section he proposes to overthrow the empirical discipline of cognitive science by examining the English grammar of the word "mind". If the brain is truly not the organ of thinking, as you claim, Mr. Hacker; then I suppose it shall come as no insult to you that I believe *your* mental...
Published on December 31, 2002 by Denise La Sala
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9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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insight and no illusion!,
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This review is from: Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind: Meaning and Mind, Volume 3 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part I: Essays (An ... on the Philosophical Investigations, Vol 3) (Paperback)
Denise la Sala, Dr Hacker will have your guts for a necktie! This is an important work which exposes the many underlying confusions of contemporary philosophy of mind. Our willingness to cleave to a picture of language which wrongly sees all sentences as descriptions leads to profound misunderstandings, which are uncovered here with devastating clarity. A must for anyone who wishes to be shown the way out of the fly bottle!
3 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A work that will no doubt please the self-important...,
This review is from: Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind: Meaning and Mind, Volume 3 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part I: Essays (An ... on the Philosophical Investigations, Vol 3) (Paperback)
... Wittgenstein intelligentsia. The author is so arrogant and pretentious that in one section he proposes to overthrow the empirical discipline of cognitive science by examining the English grammar of the word "mind". If the brain is truly not the organ of thinking, as you claim, Mr. Hacker; then I suppose it shall come as no insult to you that I believe *your* mental processes would suffer no loss even if said organ were removed from your skull. This book is trash and should not be read by anyone.
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Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind: Meaning and Mind, Volume 3 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part I: Essay... by P. M. S. Hacker (Paperback - October 18, 1993)
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