Aspects of psychologism / / Tim Crane

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812078603321
• Autore: Crane Tim
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : Harvard University Press, , 2014
• ISBN: 0-674-72811-4; 0-674-72658-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Disciplina: 150.1
• Soggetti: Psychologism; Phenomenology; Intentionality (Philosophy)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : in defence of psychologism -- Brentano's concept of intentional inexistence -- Wittgenstein on intentionality -- The origins of qualia -- Intentionality as the mark of the mental -- Intentional objects -- The intentional structure of consciousness -- Intentionalism -- The non-conceptual content of experience -- Is there a perceptual relation? -- Is perception a propositional attitude? -- The given -- Unconscious belief and conscious thought -- Subjective facts -- Papineau on phenomenal concepts -- Tye on acquaintance and the problem of consciousness.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 consciousness into knowledge of the concepts which this language embodies. Psychologism rejects this approach. The philosophy of mind, Crane ; contends, 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. Crane's claim is that intentionality--the "aboutness" or "directedness" of the mind--is essential to all mental phenomena. He criticizes materialist doctrines about consciousness and defends the position that perception can represent the world in a non-conceptual, non-propositional way, opening up philosophy to a more realistic account of the mind's nature.