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Perspectives on Mind

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Editors:
  1. Herbert R. Otto

    1. Department of Philosophy, Plymouth State College (USNH), USA

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  2. James A. Tuedio

    1. Department of Philosophy, California State University, Stanislaus, USA

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 194)

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Mind, Meaning, and Language

    1. Schemas

      1. Schemas, Persons, and Reality—A Rejoinder
        • Jan Edward Garrett
        Pages 249-260

    2. Background

      1. Background Knowledge and Natural Language Understanding
        • Christopher A. Fields
        Pages 261-274
      2. Internality, Externality, and Intentionality
        • Norton Nelkin
        Pages 275-282
      3. Objects and Fields
        • Robert C. Richardson
        Pages 283-292

    3. Translation

      1. Meaning Making: Some Functional Aspects
        • Herbert R. Otto
        Pages 293-314
      2. Comments on Otto on Translation
        • Herbert E. Hendry
        Pages 315-324
      3. Blindness to Silence: Some Dysfunctional Aspects of Meaning Making
        • Steve Fuller
        Pages 325-338

  2. Prospects for Dialogue and Synthesis

    1. Convergence

      1. Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and the Psychological Sciences
        • Joseph Margolis
        Pages 341-354
      2. The Soft Impeachment: Responding to Margolis
        • R. W. Sleeper
        Pages 355-364
      3. In Defense of Pluralism
        • James Munz
        Pages 365-370

    2. Dialogue

      1. Toward a New Agenda For the Philosophy of Mind
        • Herbert R. Otto, James A. Tuedio
        Pages 371-376

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 377-420
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About this book

Phenomenology and analytic philosophy have skirmished often, but seldom in ways conducive to dialectical progress. Generally, the skirmishes seem more "political" than philosophical, as when one side ridicules the methods of the other or criticizes the viability of the other's issues and assump­ tions. Analytic interest in third person objectivity is often spurned by Continental philosophers as being unduly abstract. Continental interest in first person subjectivity is often criticized by analysts as being muddled and imprecise. Logical analysis confronts the power of metaphor and judges it "too ambiguous" for rigorous philosophical activity. The language of metaphor confronts the power of logical analysis and deems it "too restric­ tive" for describing the nature and structures of authentic human exper­ ience. But are the two approaches really incompatible? Perhaps because each side of the "divide" has been working at problems largely uninteresting to the "opposition" it has been easy to ignore or underestimate the importance of this issue. But now each side is being led into a common field of problems associated with the nature of mind, and there is a new urgency to the need for examining carefully the question of conceptual compatibility and the potential for dialogue. Analytic thinkers are typically in the business of concept clarification and objective certi­ fication. Continental philosophers employ introspection in the interest of a project of description and classification that aims to be true to the full subtlety and complexity of the human condition.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Plymouth State College (USNH), USA

    Herbert R. Otto

  • Department of Philosophy, California State University, Stanislaus, USA

    James A. Tuedio

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Perspectives on Mind

  • Editors: Herbert R. Otto, James A. Tuedio

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4033-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2640-7Published: 31 December 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8290-7Published: 04 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-4033-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 420

  • Topics: Philosophy of Mind

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