Grundkurs Philosophie 03. Philosophie des Geistes und der Sprache

The introductory course in philosophy - an introduction to theoretical philosophy with exercises for self-study. How does the mind relate to nature and the brain? To what extent do mental states and linguistic expressions represent states in the world? What are natural languages and what syntactic and semantic structures do they exhibit? Based on these questions, Wolfgang Detel introduces the general philosophy of mind, the theory of representation, the theory of consciousness, and the philosophy of language. The new edition has been supplemented with sections on cognitive science, the theory of embodied cognition, as well as on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Robert Brandom, and Donald Davidson.