Freud and Philosophy of Mind, Volume 1: Reconstructing the Argument for Unconscious Mental States

by Jerome C. Wakefield

Book Overview

1. Introduction: Freud and the Transformation of Psychology.- 2. "Unconscious" as "Mental but Not Conscious" Why Examples of Repression, the Dynamic Unconscious, and Psychopathology Are Largely Irrelevant to Freud's Philosophy-of-Mind Argument.- 3. The Semantic Objection to Freud's Thesis.- 4. Freud's Response to the Semantic Objection: Concepts, Essentialism, and the Definition of 'Mental'.- 5. Freud and Brentano: The Cartesian Tradition that Confronted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319963422
• ISBN13: 9783319963426
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"