The Common Mind: An Essay on Psychology, Society, and Politics

by Philip Pettit

What makes human beings intentional and thinking subjects? How does their intentionality and thought connect with their social nature and their communal experience? How do the answers to these questions shape the assumptions which it is legitimate to make in social explanation and political evaluation? These are the broad-ranging issues which Pettit addresses in this novel study. The Common Mind argues for an original way of marking off thinking subjects,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195106458
• ISBN13: 9780195106459
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.8"