文档介绍：THE LIFE OF THE MIND
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 ortho-
doxy’s central themes – externalism, phenomenology and the relation between
science mon-sense psychology – in a defence of a thoroughly 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 an understanding of the mind must be purely
‘scientific’, and 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.
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).
THE LIFE OF THE MIND
An essay on phenomenological externalism
Gregory McCulloch
First published 2003
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