Weissman Lost Souls

The Philosophic Origins of a Cultural Dilemma
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8671-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Traces the history of mind-body dualism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weissman, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction
Chapter One. Plato's Divided Line
1. The Line
2. The Line's Transmission A. Plotinus
B. Augustine and Proclus
Chapter Two. Descartes' Revisions of the Line
1. Platonic Themes
A. Knowledge versus Belief
B. Mind–Body Dualism
2. Four Alterations: Descartes Amends Plato's Figure in These Critical Ways
A. Imaginings and Material Particulars Merged as Empirical Differences
B. Forms Replaced by Geometricals
C. The Cogito Substituted for the Good
D. The Line Ensouled
3. The Line Redrawn with Descartes' Emendations
4. The Equivocal Status of God and Space: The Richer and Leaner Theories
5. Skepticism
6. Descartes' Sources
Chapter Three. Consequences
1. Foundationalism
A. Epistemic and Ontological Foundationalsim
B. Mind's Structure
2. Self-knowledge
3. A Priori Intelligibility
4. The Geometrical Character of the Physical
5. The Self-valorizing Ego
6. Descartes' Legacy
A. Existence
B. God
C. Mind as Thinking Substance
D. A Hierarchy of Mutually-Conditioning Orders
E. Which is Prior: Ideas or Percepts?
F. Ideas Construed as Rules
G. Meaning
H. Truth
I. Modalities
J. Will
K. Value
Chapter Four. Descartes' Heirs: Ontological Foundationalism and "The End of Western Metaphysics"
1. Kant
2. Kant in Our Time
A. Romantic Kantians: Nietzsche and Heidegger
B. Analytic Kantians: Carnap and Quine
3. What is Philosophy?
4. Response
Chapter Five. The Cogito's Demise
1. Mind's Reduction to Body
2. Diagnosis: A Philosophical Theory Empirically Refuted
A. What is the Hypothesis Refuted?
B. What Conceptual Features Make Dualism Suspect?
C. What Empirical Evidence Refutes Descartes' Claim?
D. Is the Alleged Refutation a Methodological Error?
3. Consequences of the Refutation
Chapter Six. Churning
1. Disputed Questions
A. Mind's Knowledge of Itself: Introspection, Behaviorism, or Inference?
B. Experience: Schematization and Inspection, or Interaction?
C. Ideas: Innate or Acquired?
D. Meaning
E. Thought
F. Truth: Identity, Coherence or Correspondence?
G. Knowledge: Intuition and Demonstration, or a Network of Hypotheses?
H. Does Mind Prescribe or Investigate the Features of Things?
I. Space and Time: Forms of Intuition or Spacetime?
J. Freestanding Mind, or an Array of Causally-related Bodies or Systems?
K. Freedom or Determinism?
L. Control or Accommodation?
M. Egoism or Sociality?
N. Human Significance
2. An Altered Focus
Chapter Seven. Ideas to Reformulate and Save
1. Intelligibility: Are Thought and Language Autonomous?
2. Mind as Foundational: Culture
3. Self
4. The Good
Afterword
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Weissman is Professor of Philosophy at City College of New York and the author of several books, including, most recently, A Social Ontology.