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Aspects of Psychologism (Hardcover)
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Aspects of Psychologism is a penetrating look into fundamental
philosophical questions of consciousness, perception, and the
experience we have of our mental lives. Psychologism, in Tim
Crane's formulation, presents the mind as a single subject-matter
to be investigated not only empirically and conceptually but also
phenomenologically: through the systematic examination of
consciousness and thought from the subject's point of view. How
should we think about the mind? Analytical philosophy tends to
address this question by examining the language we use to talk
about our minds, and thus translates our knowledge of mind and
consciousness into knowledge of the concepts which this language
embodies. Psychologism rejects this approach. The philosophy of
mind, Crane believes, has become too narrow in its purely
conceptual focus on the logical and linguistic formulas that
structure thought. We cannot assume that the categories needed to
understand the mind correspond absolutely with such semantic
categories. A central claim of Crane's psychologism is that
intentionality--the "aboutness" or "directedness" of the mind--is
essential to all mental phenomena. In addition, Crane responds to
proponents of materialist doctrines about consciousness and defends
the claim that perception can represent the world in a
non-conceptual, non-propositional way. Philosophers must take more
seriously the findings of psychology and phenomenology, Crane
contends. An investigation of mental phenomena from this broader
viewpoint opens up philosophy to a more realistic and plausible
account of the mind's nature.
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