The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology

How is it that the mind perceives the words of a verse as a verse and not just as a string of words? One answer to this question is that to do so the mind itself must already be unified as a simple thing without parts (and perhaps must therefore be immortal). Kant called this argument the Achilles,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Lennon, Thomas M. (Editor ), Stainton, Robert J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
Colección:Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind, 7
Temas:
Philosophy of mind.
Philosophy > History.
Philosophy.
Science > History.
Social sciences.
Humanities.
Psychology.
Philosophy of Mind.
History of Philosophy.
History of Science.
Humanities and Social Sciences.
Behavioral Sciences and Psychology.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Did Plato Articulate the Achilles Argument?
  • Aristotle on the Unity of Consciousness
  • The Neoplatonic Achilles
  • The Unity of the Soul and Contrary Appetites in Medieval Philosophy
  • Hume, Spinoza and the Achilles Inference
  • Locke and the Achilles Argument
  • The Reverse Achilles in Locke
  • Cudworth and Bayle: An Odd Couple?
  • The Achilles Argument and the Nature of Matter in the Clarke Collins Correspondence
  • Leibniz's 'Achilles'
  • Hume's Reply to the Achilles Argument
  • Kant and Mendelssohn on the Implications of the 'I Think'
  • Kant on the Achilles Argument
  • William James and the Achilles Argument
  • The Binding Problem: Achilles in the 21st Century.

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