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Why We Cannot Think about Nonexistents by Nicholas Rimell is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Why We Cannot Think about Nonexistents about?
This book defends a novel view of mental representation—of how, as thinkers, we represent the world as being. The book serves as a response to two problems in the philosophy of mind. One is the problem of first-personal, or egocentric, belief: how can we have truly first personal beliefs—beliefs in which we think about ourselves as ourselves—given that beliefs are supposed to be attitudes towards propositions and that propositions are supposed to have their truth values independent of a perspect
Who reads Why We Cannot Think about Nonexistents?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Nicholas Rimell
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789811635175
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Psychology, Literary Criticism, Physics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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