ABSTRACT
First published in 1995. Since Descartes, the mind has been thought to be `in the head', separable from the world and even from the body it inhabits. Gregory McCulloch, in The MInd and its World, considers the latest debates in philosophy and cognitive science about whether the thinking subject actually requires an environment in order to be able to think. McCulloch explores the argument from Descartes, through Locke, Frege and Wittgenstein up to the present day. He then offers an original defence of his own version of externalism - that the mind is constituted by the objectw which are its phenomena. The Mind and its World provides a clear and accessible introduction to a cluster of contemporary controversies in the area of the philosophy of mind and language. It is designed to be read by students with no previous knowledge of the issues, but will also be of interest to specialists in the field.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |128 pages
Part I
chapter Chapter I|23 pages
Descartes and Cartesianism
chapter Chapter II|31 pages
Locke and the Theory of Ideas
chapter Chapter III|22 pages
Frege and the Theory of Understanding
chapter Chapter IV|30 pages
Wittgenstein: Use and Understanding
chapter Chapter V|20 pages
Behaviourism and Mentalism
part |96 pages
Part II