Rossman does not pretend to solve all of the problems associated with these difficult topics, but only to provide a method and a framework of concepts within which they can be correctly understood. Overcoming error, fragmentation, and alienation requires, according to the author, a correct understanding of the relationship of consciousness to the world, but this understanding is made difficult by the very nature of consciousness. Consciousness is difficult to categorize. His writing style and patterns of argumentation, too, are on a par with work in contemporary analytic philosophy of mind. This is a good thing, for even though Rossman's approach risks losing some readers, it also promises important theoretical advances from the cross-fertilization of the interests and methods of different philosophical strains.
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Although I do not accept either Rossman's methods or his conclusions, I think that his account of mentality is worthy of serious consideration and that his attempt to integrate his account into a larger vision of the point and purpose of human life is just the sort of thing that philosophers should be doing. Rossman's method is broadly phenomenological. This is important both for a correct understanding of mental life and for a solution to the experiential problems generated by consciousness, for those problems are authentically resolved only when we experience ourselves and our connection to the world in the proper way. Here, in a nutshell, is Rossman's theory. Animals have pre-reflective experience.