Mind, Self and Interiority
by
Thomas Duddy
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Avebury Series in Philosophy
ISBN-10
1859721532
ISBN-13
9781859721537
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Avebury
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 24th, 1995
Print length
202 Pages
Weight
453 grams
Product Classification:
Philosophy of mind
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The central claim of this book is that such purportedly ’Cartesian’ concepts as privacy, interiority and self-unity are compatible with a materialist philosophy of mind.
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.
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