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Mental Reality (Paperback, second edition, with a new appendix)
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Mental Reality (Paperback, second edition, with a new appendix)
Series: Representation and Mind series
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An argument against neobehaviorism and for "naturalized
Cartesianism," which couples a wholly materialist approach to the
mind with a fully realist attitude to the phenomena of conscious
experience. In Mental Reality, Galen Strawson argues that much
contemporary philosophy of mind gives undue primacy of place to
publicly observable phenomena, nonmental phenomena, and behavioral
phenomena (understood as publicly observable phenomena) in its
account of the nature of mind. It does so at the expense of the
phenomena of conscious experience. Strawson describes an
alternative position, "naturalized Cartesianism," which couples the
materialist view that mind is entirely natural and wholly physical
with a fully realist account of the nature of conscious experience.
Naturalized Cartesianism is an adductive (as opposed to reductive)
form of materialism. Adductive materialists don't claim that
conscious experience is anything less than we ordinarily conceive
it to be, in being wholly physical. They claim instead that the
physical is something more than we ordinarily conceive it to be,
given that many of the wholly physical goings on in the brain
constitute-literally are-conscious experiences as we ordinarily
conceive them. Since naturalized Cartesianism downgrades the place
of reference to nonmental and publicly observable phenomena in an
adequate account of mental phenomena, Strawson considers in detail
the question of what part such reference still has to play. He
argues that it is a mistake to think that all behavioral phenomena
are publicly observable phenomena.This revised and expanded edition
of Mental Reality includes a new appendix, which thoroughly revises
the account of intentionality given in chapter 7.
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