Mental Reality
$83.87
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
9 October 2009
Summary
An argument against neobehaviorism and for “naturalized Cartesianism,” which couples a wholly materialist approach to the mind with a fully realist attitude to the phenomena of conscious experience.In Mental Reality, Galen Strawson argues that much contemporary philosophy of mind gives undue primacy of place to publicly observable phenomena, nonmental phenomena, and behavioral phenomena (understood as publicly observable phenomena) in its account of the nature of mind. It does so at the expen…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262513104 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262513102 |
| Author: | Galen Strawson |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bradford Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 9 October 2009 |
| Weight: | 544g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Representation and Mind series |
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PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION “Strawson’s inquiry explores a remarkable range of hard questions with care and insight.” Noam Chomsky Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Praise for the first edition: In Mental Reality, Galen Strawson tries to determine what the fundamental and difficult questions about the mind are, and to answer them. His answers are iconoclastic and brilliant, especially his sustained criticism of behaviorism, functionalism and of certain ideas associated with Wittgenstein.
– Paul Snowdon * Philosophy and Phenomenological Research *Praise for the first edition: Perhaps the most detailed and convincing refutation of behaviorism given yet in philosophy.
* Times Literary Supplement *Praise for the first edition: Strawson’s inquiry explores a remarkable range of hard questions with care and insight.
– Noam Chomsky * Philosophy and Phenomenological Research *About The Author
Galen Strawson
Galen Strawson taught philosophy at the University of Oxford for twenty years before moving to the University of Reading in 2001. He was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York Graduate Center from 2004-2007.
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