The Mind and its World

By: Gregory McCulloch

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Hardcover | 25 May 1995 | Edition Number 1

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240 Pages

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Since Descartes, the mind has been thought to be "in the head," separable from the world and even from the body it inhabits. In "The Mind and its World," Gregory McCulloch considers the latest debates in philosophy and cognitive science about whether the thinking subject actually requires an environment in order to be able to think.
McCulloch explores the mind/body duality from the Enlightenment to the 20th century. He examines such figures as Descartes, Frege, Locke, and Wittgenstein. His method is comparative, and his insights are illuminating. By pitting Descartes against such thinkers as Wittgenstein and Frege, McCulloch produces a dynamic account of the implications of the Descartian argument about consciousness and the mind. The contrast evolves into McCulloch's original theory of externalism, the notion that the mind is not in the head, and is constituted by environmental, and linguistic object relations.
"The Mind and its World" is a clear and compelling reading of the one of the dominant elements and debates within Western philosophy. Its synthesis of the arguments and controversies will make this book necessary reading for the general reader who is interested in the claims the Enlightenment and its aftermath have made about consciousness, our "minds," and even our brains._

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"This is a first-rate book. It is a very important insight that we make almost no headway with the problems Descartes left to the philosophy of mind simply by rejecting his immaterialism; and McCulloch's defense of externalism is sophisticated and convicing." -John McDowell, University of Pittsburgh

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