1st Edition
The Life of the Mind An Essay on Phenomenological Externalism
By Gregory McCulloch
Copyright 2003
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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).
'Writing with his characteristic flair, precision and clarity, [McCulloch] seeks to understand how the mind can be intentionally directed towards the world...The fruit of twenty years' thinking, The Life of the Mind is a significant and exciting contribution to philosophy and a poignant reminder of McCulloch's importance to the discipline.' Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, Mind
