The Intellectual Powers is a philosophical investigation into the cognitive and cogitative powers of mankind. It develops a connective analysis of our powers of consciousness, intentionality, mastery of language, knowledge, belief, certainty, sensation, perception, memory, thought, and imagination, by one of Britain’s leading philosophers. It is an essential guide and handbook for philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive neuroscientists.
The culmination of 45 years of reflection on the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the nature of the human person
No other book in epistemology or philosophy of psychology provides such extensive overviews of consciousness, self-consciousness, intentionality, mastery of a language, knowledge, belief, memory, sensation and perception, thought and imagination
Illustrated with tables, tree-diagrams, and charts to provide overviews of the conceptual relationships disclosed by analysis
Written by one of Britain’s best philosophical minds
A sequel to Hacker’s Human Nature: The Categorial Framework
An essential guide and handbook for all who are working in philosophy of mind, epistemology, psychology, cognitive science, and cognitive neuroscience
Author Biography:
P. M. S. Hacker is a Fellow of St John s College,Oxford. He is the author of numerous books and articles onphilosophy of mind and philosophy of language as well asphilosophical foundations of cognitive neuroscience, and is theleading authority on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Among his manypublications is the monumental four-volume Analytical Commentaryon Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations(Wiley-Blackwell, 1991, first two volumes co-authored with G. P.Baker), and its epilogue Wittgenstein's Place in TwentiethCentury Analytic Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 1996). His work(with Maxwell Bennett) on cognitive neuroscience, PhilosophicalFoundations of Neuroscience (2003) and History of CognitiveNeuroscience (2008), is renowned. The first volume of histrilogy on human nature, Human Nature: the CategorialFramework, was published in 2007.
