TY  - BOOK
AU  - 
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Culture and Cultural Entities: Toward a New Unity of Science 
T2  - Synthese Library
SN  - 9789048125548
AV  - B63 
U1  - 300.1 23
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands
KW  - Philosophy (General)
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - Ontology
KW  - Philosophy of mind
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Philosophy of the Social Sciences
KW  - Methodology of the Social Sciences
KW  - Philosophy of Mind
N1  - Nature, Culture, and Persons -- The Concept of Consciousness -- Animal and Human Minds -- Action and Causality -- Puzzles About the Causal Explanation of Human Actions -- Cognitivism and the Problem of Explaining Human Intelligence -- Wittgenstein and Natural Languages -- Afterwords (2009)
N2  - Culture and Cultural Entities provides an original philosophical analysis of the nature and explanation of cultural phenomena, with special attention to ontology and methodology. It addresses in depth such topics as: the relation between physical and biological nature and cultural phenomena; the analysis of intentionality; the nature and explanation of action; causality; causal explanation and the unity of science; theories of language; historicity; animal and human intelligence; psychological and social phenomena; technology and evolution. Its approach features a form of non-reductive materialism, examines a wide range of views, and is highly readable, making it suitable for professionals, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and an informed general audience. A new chapter was added to give a sense of pertinent trends since the appearance of the first edition, particularly with respect to the history of philosophy, pragmatism, the unity of science, and evolution. The unity, scope, and simplicity of the theory are well-regarded
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2554-8
ER  -