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Scaffolded Minds

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Additional ISBN/GTIN9780262353847
Product TypeE-book
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FormatE101
PublisherMIT Press
Publishing date27/08/2019
SeriesPhilosophical Psychopathology
LanguageEnglish
File size403 Kbytes
Illustrations3 B&W ILLUS.
Article no.9256731
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Somogy Varga is Professor of Philosophy at Aarhus University, Denmark. He previously worked at the University of Memphis (2012?2019), the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück (2009?2012), and the Institute of Social Research at Goethe University Frankfurt (2007?2009). He is the author of Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal and Naturalism, Interpretation, and Mental Disorder.