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Routledge
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Routledge
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"Making the Human Mind" is an attack on the widespread assumption that the mind has parts and that it is the interaction between these parts which accounts for some of the most characteristic human behaviour, the sorts of irrational behaviour displayed in self-deception and weakness of will. The implications of this attack are considerable: Professor Sharpe contests a realism about the mind, the... Read more
Introduction 1 THE PARATACTIC IMAGINATION 2 HERMENEUTICS AND ANTI-REALISM 3 THE IDEA OF A FOLK PSYCHOLOGY 4 AKRASIA AND SELF DECEPTION 5 ON NOT TAKING THINGS AT FACE VALUE 6 HOW MAN CREATED MIND
Biography
Professor Sharpe teaches philosophy at Saint David's University College, Lampeter, University of Wales.
