The Life of the Mind

An Essay on Phenomenological Externalism
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-26623-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

The Life of the Mind presents an original and striking conception of the mind and its place in nature. In a spirited and rigorous 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 common-sense psychology - in a defence of a throughly 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 intentionality and phenomenology must be understood separately. The product of over twenty years' thinking on these issues, McCulloch's book is a bold and significant contribution to philosophy.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCulloch, Gregory

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).