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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Collectivité auteur: SpringerLink (Online service)
Autres auteurs: Lennon, Thomas M. (Éditeur intellectuel), Stainton, Robert J. (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Édition:1st ed. 2008.
Collection:Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind, 7
Sujets:
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.
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Table des matières:
  • 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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