The Fragmented Mind 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0192591061
• ISBN-13: 9780192591067
• Author: Andrea Onofri, Cristina Borgoni, Dirk Kindermann
  

Mental fragmentation is the thesis that the mind is fragmented, or compartmentalized. Roughly, this means that an agent’s overall belief state is divided into several sub-states-fragments. These fragments need not make for a consistent and deductively closed belief system. The thesis of mental fragmentation became popular through the work of philosophers like Christopher Cherniak, David Lewis, and Robert Stalnaker in the 1980s, and has recently attracted increased attention. This volume is the first collection of essays devoted to the topic of mental fragmentation. It features important new contributions by leading experts in the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and philosophy of language. Opening with an accessible introduction providing a systematic overview of the current debate, the fourteen essays cover a wide range of issues: foundational issues and motivations for fragmentation, the rationality or irrationality of fragmentation, fragmentation’s role in language, the relationship between fragmentation and mental files, and the implications of fragmentation for the analysis of implicit attitudes.

Table contents:

1 Fragmentation and Information Access

2 Fragmentation and Coarse-Grained Content

3 The Fragmentation of BeliefGe

4 Fragmented Models of Belief

5 Rationality in Fragmented Belief Systems

6 Fragmented but Rational

7 Fragmentation and Singular Propositions

8 On the Availability of Presuppositions in Conversation

9 Do Mental Files Obey Strawson’s Constraint?

10 Belief Fragments and Mental FilesGet accessArrow

11 Implicit Attitudes Are (Probably) Beliefs

12 Implicit Bias and the Fragmented MindGe

13 Rational Agency and the Struggle to Believe What Your Reasons Dictate

14 The Pragmatic Metaphysics of Belief

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