A01=Thomas Duddy
anti-dualism
Author_Thomas Duddy
brain
Bundle Theory
Cartesian Ego
Category=QDTM
Classical Identity Theory
consciousness studies
Eliminative Materialism
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
Folk Psychology
folk psychology critique
Folk Theory
Higher Level Emergent Property
identity
Identity Thesis
Intentional Stance
Leibniz's Law
Leibniz’s Law
materialist theories
Mental Predicates
Methodic Doubt
Mind Brain Identity Theory
philosophy of mind
Policing Process
post-Cartesian subjectivity materialism
Predictive Strategy
privacy and subjectivity
Private Language Argument
Private Mental Life
Private Semantics
Psychological Predicates
Ryle's Account
Rylean Behaviourism
Ryle’s Account
Secondary Quality Concepts
theory
Turing Machine
Turing Machine Functionalism
Universal Turing Machine
Product details
- ISBN 9781859721537
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 24 Oct 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Contemporary philosophers of mind often raise serious questions around the concepts of self, subjectivity, and ’the inner life’ on the grounds that such concepts have their origin in a discredited Cartesian metaphysics. The contention of this book is that the rejection of ’interiority’ and related concepts has been based on a time-honoured misreading of Descartes. In the course of exposing the misconceived anti-Cartesianism of a wide range of thinkers from Wittgenstein and Ryle to Dennett and Foucault, an attempt is made to clear a space for a new post-Cartesian conception of subjectivity - a conception of subjectivity which is consistent with at least some versions of materialism. The aim of this book is not to defend Cartesian dualism but to reclaim important concepts that have been anathematized by having been mistakenly associated with it.
Thomas Duddy, University College, Galway, Ireland
