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Socializing Minds - Intersubjectivity in Early Modern Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Socializing Minds - Intersubjectivity in Early Modern Philosophy (Hardcover)
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In this book, Martin Lenz provides the first reconstruction of
intersubjective accounts of the mind in early modern philosophy.
Some phenomena are easily recognised as social or interactive:
certain dances, forms of work and rituals require interaction to
come into being or count as valid. But what about mental states,
such as thoughts, volitions, or emotions? Do our minds also depend
on other minds? The idea that our minds are intersubjective or
social seems to be a recent one, developed mainly in the 19th and
20th centuries against the individualism of early modern
philosophers. By contrast, this book argues that well-known early
modern philosophers often started from the idea that minds are
intersubjective. How then does a mind depend on the minds of
others? Early modern philosophers are well known to have developed
a number of theories designed to explain how we cognize external
objects. What is hardly recognized is that early modern
philosophers also addressed the problem of how our cognition is
influenced by other minds. This book provides a historical and
rational reconstruction of three central, but different, early
modern accounts of the influence that minds exert on one another:
Spinoza's metaphysical model, Locke's linguistic model, and Hume's
medical model. Showing for each model of mental interaction (1) why
it was developed, (2) how it construes mind-mind relations, and (3)
what view of the mind it suggests, this book aims at uncovering a
crucial part of the unwritten history of intersubjectivity in the
philosophy of mind.
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