Mental Reality

by Galen Strawson

Book Overview

What is distinctive of the mental? In Mental Reality, Galen Strawson argues that the answer is not intelligence or sapience, representational content or intentionality broadly understood, but conscious experience. Strawson challenges neo-behaviourist accounts of the mental. He argues that much contemporary philosophy of mind is still confused by positivism and its various offspring. It gives undue primacy of place to nonmental phenomena, publicly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262193523
• ISBN13: 9780262193528
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"