Christopher Norris argues for and constructs a new approach to
philosophy of mind that combines naturalistic and rationalist
perspectives usually thought to be at odds. "Re-Thinking the
Cogito" seeks to combine a strongly naturalistic with a
distinctively rationalist perspective on some nowadays
much-discussed issues in philosophy of mind. Against the common
view that they involve downright incompatible conceptions of mind,
knowledge and ethics it seeks to unite a naturalism that draws on
recent advances in neurophysiology and cognitive science with an
outlook that gives full weight to those normative values at the
heart of rationalist thought. True to the book's constructive
spirit, Norris offers various detailed proposals for bringing the
two approaches into a mutually enhancing - though also mutually
provocative - relationship. He finds that claim strikingly
prefigured in Spinoza's working-out of a non-reductive yet
metaphysically uncompromising mind/body monism. Moreover he
suggests how a thoroughly naturalised approach might yet become a
locus of productive engagement with the work of an
ultra-rationalist thinker such as Alain Badiou. Thus Norris puts
the case that physically embodied human thought has cognitive,
intellectual and creative powers that cannot and need not be
accounted for in terms of conscious (let alone self-conscious)
reflection. "Continuum Studies in Philosophy" presents cutting-edge
scholarship in all the major areas of research and study. The
wholly original arguments, perspectives and research findings in
titles in this series make it an important and stimulating resource
for students and academics from a range of disciplines across the
humanities and social sciences.
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