Persons And Their Minds
Subtitle: a Philosophical Investigation
By: Elmer Sprague
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780429498398
Subjects: Philosophy; Philosophie
Description: "Persons and Their Minds compares the conflicting claims of mindism and personism and argues for placing persons at the center of philosophy of mind. Mindism stems from Descartes, takes the spectator stance, and makes the mind the subject of mental verbs such as?know,??think,? and?believe.? Personism stems from Wittgenstein and Ryle, takes the agent stance, and restores persons to their proper place as subjects of mental verbs. Employing lessons taught by Wittgenstein and Ryle, the book offers a running criticism of mindism as it appears in the work of Descartes, Locke, Davidson, Fodor, Hume, Parfit, Dennett, Searle, McGinn, Flanagan, Chalmers, and Baars, and demonstrates personism's ability to resist various forms of mindism. Intended for upper-level or graduate students of philosophy, Persons and Their Minds should also interest psychologists, psychotherapists, and other professionals who use philosophy of mind in their work."--Provided by publisher.