The Life of the Mind: An Essay on Phenomenological Externalism

by Gregory McCulloch

Overview

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 anti-Cartesian conception of mental life.

McCulloch argues that the life of the mind will never be understood until we properly understand the subject's essential embodiment and immersion in the world, until we give up the idea that intentionality and phenomenology must be understood separately. The product of over twenty years' thinking on these issues, McCulloch's book is a bold and significant contribution to philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134501090
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/08/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	234 KB

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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