256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
It is commonly held that our thoughts, beliefs, desires and feelings - the mental phenomena that we instantiate - are constituted by states and processes that occur inside our head. The view known as externalism, however, denies that mental phenomena are internal in this sense. The mind is not purely in the head. Mental phenomena are hybrid entities that straddle both internal state and processes... Read more
Preface and acknowledgements 1. Introduction: internalism and externalism 2. Cartesianism 3. Idealism 4. The "radical reversal" of idealism 5. The attack on the inner 6. Content externalism 7. The scope and limits of content externalism 8. Externalism and first-person authority 9. Vehicle externalism 10. Externalism and consciousness 11. Externalist axiology 12. Conclusion: externalism, internalism, and idealism Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Mark Rowlands
