1st Edition
The Importance of Being Understood Folk Psychology as Ethics
By Adam Morton
Copyright 2003
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Importance of Being Understood is an innovative and thought-provoking exploration of the links between the way we think about each other's mental states and the fundamentally cooperative nature of everyday life. Adam Morton begins with a consideration of 'folk psychology', the tendency to attribute emotions, desires, beliefs and thoughts to human minds. He takes the view that it is... Read more
Foreword 1. Microethics 2. Motives and Virtues 3. Belief and Coordination 4. Explanatory Contrast and Casual Depth 5. Learning to Simulate Summing-up Exploration I Exploration II Exploration III Exploration IV Bibliography
Biography
Adam Morton is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. He is author of Philosophy in Practice (Blackwell, 1995) and A Guide Through the Theory of Knowledge (Blackwell, 1997).
'Morton's book...helps to shake off some of the more compulsive and dead-end fixations of current philosophical debate' Southern Humanities Review
