The Ontology of Psychology: Questioning Foundations in the Philosophy of Mind

by Linda A.W. Brakel

Book Overview

In this volume, Brakel raises questions about conventions in the study of mind in three disciplines-psychoanalysis, philosophy of mind, and experimental philosophy. She illuminates new understandings of the mind through interdisciplinary challenges to views long-accepted.

Here she proposes a view of psychoanalysis as a treatment that owes its successes largely to its biological nature-biological in its capacity to best approximate the extinction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138209635
• ISBN13: 9781138209633
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"