The Life of the Mind: An Essay on Phenomenological Externalism

ISBN-13: 9780415266222 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 176 str.

Gregory McCulloch

Opis

The Life of the Mind presents a conception of the mind and its place in nature. In an attack on most of the orthodox positions in contemporary philosophy of mind, McCulloch connects three of the orthodoxy's central themes - externalism, phenomenology and the relation between science and commonsense psychology - in a defence of a thoroughly anti-Cartesian conception of mental life. McCulloch argues that the life of the mind will never be understood until we properly understand the subject's essential embodiment and immersion in the world, until we give up the idea that an understanding of the mind must be scientific, and until we give up the idea that intentionality and phenomenology must be understood separately. The product of over 20 years' thinking on these issues, McCulloch's book is a significant contribution to philosophy.

Spis treści

Preface, Introduction: the Demonic Dilemma PART I Mind and World 1 The Phenomenological 2 Content Externalism 3 Scientific Realism, the Subjective, the Objective 4 The Epistemological Real Distinction PART II Mind and Body 5 Behaviour-embracing Mentalism 6 Behaviour-rejecting Mentalism, Bipartism, Tripartism 7 Let the vat-brains speak for themselves

O autorze

Gregory McCulloch was Professor of Philosophy at Birmingham University. He is the author of The Game of the Name (1989), Using Sartre (Routledge, 1994) and The Mind and its World (Routledge 1995).