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Mental Reality, second edition, with a new appendix

Mental Reality, second edition, with a new appendix

Strawson, Galen

Paperback

Series: Representation and Mind

PhilosophyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0262513102
ISBN13: 9780262513104
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Nov 1 2009
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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 expense of the phenomena of conscious experience. Strawson describes an alternative position, naturalized Cartesianism, which couples the materialist view that mind is entirely natural and wholly physical with a fully realist account of the nature of conscious experience. Naturalized Cartesianism is an adductive (as opposed to reductive) form of materialism. Adductive materialists don't claim that conscious experience is anything less than we ordinarily conceive it to be, in being wholly physical. They claim instead that the physical is something more than we ordinarily conceive it to be, given that many of the wholly physical goings on in the brain constitute--literally are--conscious experiences as we ordinarily conceive them.

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