Mind World: Essays in Phenomenology and Ontology

by David Woodruff Smith

Overview

Developing ideas drawn from historical figures such as Descartes, Husserl, Aristotle, and Whitehead, this collection of essays explores the structure of consciousness and its place in the world and, inversely, the structure of the world and the place of consciousness in it. Among the topics covered are: the phenomenological aspects of experience, dependencies between experience and the world and the basic ontological categories found in the world at large.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521832038
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/22/2004
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.98(d)

Table of Contents

Prolegomena: the terroir of consciousness and the world; Overview: a story line; 1. Three facets of consciousness; 2. The cogito circa AD 2000; 3. Return to consciousness; 4. Consciousness in action; 5. Background ideas; 6. Intentionality naturalized? 7. Consciousness and actuality; 8. Basic categories; Coda: the beetle in the box.