Inner and Outer
Essays on a Philosophical Myth
Godfrey N. A. Vesey(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published in June 1991
Book
Hardback
268 pages
978-0-333-55045-8 (ISBN)
Description
A traditional view of voluntary action, perception and communication is that each of them involves two distinct elements, one inner or mental and one outer or physical. Voluntary action is held to comprise an inner act of willing, a "volition", and a bodily movement somehow produced by the volition. Perception is held to occur when something in the "external" world somehow gets represented in the mind. Communication is said to involve the translation of ideas or thoughts into words or sentences, and back again. The 17 papers in this volume constitute a sustained attack on these dualist theories, and a defence of alternative accounts, more in keeping with how we ordinarily talk and think.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 148 mm
Weight
470 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-55045-8 (9780333550458)
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Content
Part 1 Voluntary action: the princess and the philosopher; volition; agent and spectator - the double aspect theory; Hume on liberty and necessity; free will. Part 2 Perception: unthinking assumptions and their justification; seeing and seeing as; sensations of colour; of the visible appearances of objects; the location of bodily sensations; the world without. Part 3 Communication: is talk a mode of transport?; self-acquaintance and the meaning of "I"; Wittgenstein on the myth of mental processes; Wittgenstein on psychological verbs; other minds; Wittgenstein - a dictionary entry.