Rowland Stout
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748623433
- eISBN:
- 9780748652501
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748623433.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
This book provides an up-to-date version of behaviourism, although not a form of behaviourism that denies the existence of consciousness, free will, rationality, etc., nor aims to reduce these to ...
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This book provides an up-to-date version of behaviourism, although not a form of behaviourism that denies the existence of consciousness, free will, rationality, etc., nor aims to reduce these to other sorts of things. Properly understood, the idea of being disposed to behave in a certain way is seen as being exactly as rich and interesting as the idea of being in a certain state of mind. The fact that our ways of behaving are sensitive to practical rationality is taken to be an essential aspect of our nature as conscious agents. In describing such a version of practical rationality, the author claims that we are describing the mental state of someone whose behaviour is sensitive to it. His account of behaviourism rests on two central notions: that of a causal disposition to behave; and that of sensitivity to practical rationality. The author explains and develops these notions in some detail, and then uses them to construct powerful and original accounts of belief, intention, knowledge, perception and consciousness.Less
This book provides an up-to-date version of behaviourism, although not a form of behaviourism that denies the existence of consciousness, free will, rationality, etc., nor aims to reduce these to other sorts of things. Properly understood, the idea of being disposed to behave in a certain way is seen as being exactly as rich and interesting as the idea of being in a certain state of mind. The fact that our ways of behaving are sensitive to practical rationality is taken to be an essential aspect of our nature as conscious agents. In describing such a version of practical rationality, the author claims that we are describing the mental state of someone whose behaviour is sensitive to it. His account of behaviourism rests on two central notions: that of a causal disposition to behave; and that of sensitivity to practical rationality. The author explains and develops these notions in some detail, and then uses them to construct powerful and original accounts of belief, intention, knowledge, perception and consciousness.
Simon Morgan Wortham
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474429603
- eISBN:
- 9781474438575
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474429603.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
As calls mount for resistance to recent political events, Simon Morgan Wortham explores the political implications and complexities of a psychoanalytic conception of resistance. Through close ...
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As calls mount for resistance to recent political events, Simon Morgan Wortham explores the political implications and complexities of a psychoanalytic conception of resistance. Through close readings of a range of authors, both within and outside of the psychoanalytic tradition, the question of the politics of psychoanalysis itself is read back into the task of thinking resistance from a psychoanalytic point of view. Simon Morgan Wortham explores what he sees as the phobic resistance at the centre of the politics of psychoanalysis, one that creates fresh possibilities for contemporary cultural and political analysis.Less
As calls mount for resistance to recent political events, Simon Morgan Wortham explores the political implications and complexities of a psychoanalytic conception of resistance. Through close readings of a range of authors, both within and outside of the psychoanalytic tradition, the question of the politics of psychoanalysis itself is read back into the task of thinking resistance from a psychoanalytic point of view. Simon Morgan Wortham explores what he sees as the phobic resistance at the centre of the politics of psychoanalysis, one that creates fresh possibilities for contemporary cultural and political analysis.
Paul Gilbert and Kathleen Lennon
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748614981
- eISBN:
- 9780748652495
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748614981.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
This work brings contemporary continental thought into conversation with analytic philosophy on the principal topics of philosophy of mind, considering three themes – the world, the flesh and the ...
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This work brings contemporary continental thought into conversation with analytic philosophy on the principal topics of philosophy of mind, considering three themes – the world, the flesh and the subject – to resolve the puzzles that beset contemporary philosophy of mind. The authors provide a coherent approach that draws upon phenomenology, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis and poststructuralism, and also relate recent feminist work on the body to traditional concerns with the mind. Other topics discussed include the problem of consciousness, perception and sensation, imagination, desire, emotion, reason, and agency, and the self and others.Less
This work brings contemporary continental thought into conversation with analytic philosophy on the principal topics of philosophy of mind, considering three themes – the world, the flesh and the subject – to resolve the puzzles that beset contemporary philosophy of mind. The authors provide a coherent approach that draws upon phenomenology, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis and poststructuralism, and also relate recent feminist work on the body to traditional concerns with the mind. Other topics discussed include the problem of consciousness, perception and sensation, imagination, desire, emotion, reason, and agency, and the self and others.
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Lacan Deleuze Badiou
Oil and Gas Law
Spirit Becomes Matter
Advances and Innovations in University Assessment and Feedback
The Becoming of the Body
Contemporary American Trauma Narratives
