Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Alva Noë
Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition Charles Taylor
Part 1: Explanation by Purpose
1. Purpose and Teleology
2. Action and Desire
3. Intentionality
4. The Data Language
5. The Problem of Verification
Part 2: Theory and Fact
6. The Determinants of Learning
7. What Is Learned?
8. Spatial Orientation
9. The Direction of Behaviour
10. The Ends of Behaviour
11. Conclusion
Index
Biography
Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus at McGill University, Canada. The author of many books on social and political philosophy, the philosophy of mind and language and the history of philosophy, he is one of the best-known and widely read philosophers in the world. He is also a prominent figure in Canadian politics and is a prominent voice in debates about liberalism and multiculturalism.
"A vehemently interesting book. The philosophical part displays the most remarkable grasp of the contemporary philosophical situation and its historical roots... There is also a satisfactory absence of the tones and attitudes of any particular philosophical school." - Elizabeth Anscombe, The New Statesman
"A most valuable and systematic account of a major problem in the explanation of behaviour. His arguments are both powerful and of the greatest possible general interest." - Times Literary Supplement
