Normativity and The Metaphysics of Mind

Mind, Medicine and Metaphysics

The Philosophy of a Physician, by William Brown, D.M. (Oxon), D.Sc. (Lond.), F.R.C.P. London, Oxford University Press, 1936. Price 7/6d. A series of fourteen essays and lectures upon medical, psychological and metaphysical topics is chosen by the author as the medium for conveying to the general reader (a) a philosophy of life and (b) the philosophy of a physician (the author). Each essay is co...

Dewey’s Metaphysics of Mind

In the mid-nineties, Routledge brought out The Mechanical Mind. Authored by Tim Crane, this was a readable introduction, overview and rationale for approaching the philosophy of mind from a particular outlook. Specifically, it identified and defended the core and foundational assumptions that inform mainstream analytic philosophy of mind. The book advanced a kind of 'ideological argument' in th...

Realization and the Metaphysics of Mind

113 words Body: 3074 words (excludes notes and references) REALIZATION AND THE METAPHYSICS OF MIND Thomas W. Polger

Rationality, Normativity and Transparency Forthcoming in Mind

Although in everyday life and thought we take for granted that there are norms of rationality, their existence presents severe philosophical problems. Kolodny (2005) is thus moved to deny that rationality is normative. But this denial is not itself unproblematic, and I argue that Kolodny’s defense of it—particularly his Transparency Account, which aims to explain why rationality appears to be n...

Mind, Medicine and Metaphysics: The Philosophy of a Physician