{"title":"Tim Crane","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTim Crane\u003c\/strong\u003e explores profound questions at the intersection of philosophy and psychology, offering insightful perspectives on belief, consciousness, and the mind. His works invite readers to engage with fundamental issues about how we understand ourselves and our mental lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a clear and thoughtful style, Crane’s books challenge traditional views and provoke reflection on the nature of thought and experience. Ideal for those fascinated by the philosophy of mind and the complexities of human cognition.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-meaning-of-belief-by-tim-crane-9780674088832","title":"The Meaning of Belief","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[A] lucid and thoughtful book. In a spirit of reconciliation, Crane proposes to paint a more accurate picture of religion for his fellow unbelievers.\" - \u003cb\u003eJames Ryerson, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many plausible and some unanswerable, but these make no impact on religious believers. Defenders of religion find atheists equally unwilling to cede ground. \u003ci\u003eThe Meaning of Belief\u003c\/i\u003e offers a way out of this stalemate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn atheist himself, Tim Crane writes that there is a fundamental flaw with most atheists' basic approach: religion is not what they think it is. Atheists tend to treat religion as a kind of primitive cosmology, as the sort of explanation of the universe that science offers. They conclude that religious believers are irrational, superstitious, and bigoted. But this view of religion is almost entirely inaccurate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCrane offers an alternative account based on two ideas. The first is the idea of a religious impulse: the sense people have of something transcending the world of ordinary experience, even if it cannot be explicitly articulated. The second is the idea of identification: the fact that religion involves belonging to a specific social group and participating in practices that reinforce the bonds of belonging. Once these ideas are properly understood, the inadequacy of atheists' conventional conception of religion emerges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Meaning of Belief\u003c\/i\u003e does not assess the truth or falsehood of religion. Rather, it looks at the meaning of religious belief and offers a way of understanding it that both makes sense of current debate and also suggests what more intellectually responsible and practically effective attitudes atheists might take to the phenomenon of religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455789744364,"sku":"9780674088832","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/61PiDplDiwL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774798693"},{"product_id":"the-mechanical-mind-by-tim-crane-9781138858329","title":"The Mechanical Mind","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow can the human mind represent the external world? What is thought, and can it be studied scientifically? Should we think of the mind as a kind of machine? Is the mind a computer? Can a computer think? Tim Crane sets out to answer these questions and more in a lively and straightforward way, presuming no prior knowledge of philosophy or related disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince its first publication, \u003cem\u003eThe Mechanical Mind\u003c\/em\u003e has introduced thousands of people to some of the most important ideas in contemporary philosophy of mind. Crane explains the fundamental ideas that cut across philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence and cognitive science: what the mind–body problem is; what a computer is and how it works; what thoughts are and how computers and minds might have them. He examines different theories of the mind from dualist to eliminativist, and questions whether there can be thought without language and whether the mind is subject to the same causal laws as natural phenomena. The result is a fascinating exploration of the theories and arguments surrounding the notions of thought and representation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis third edition has been fully revised and updated, and includes a wholly new chapter on externalism about mental content and the extended and embodied mind. There is a stronger emphasis on the environmental and bodily context in which thought occurs. Many chapters have been reorganised to make the reader’s passage through the book easier. The book now contains a much more detailed guide to further reading, and the chronology and the glossary of technical terms have also been updated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Mechanical Mind\u003c\/em\u003e is accessible to anyone interested in the mechanisms of our minds, and essential reading for those studying philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, or cognitive psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47608102191340,"sku":"9781138858329","price":388.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781138858329-the-mechanical-mind.jpg?v=1778183257"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/tim-crane.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}