The Minds of the Moderns: Rationalism, Empiricism and Philosophy of Mind

Janice Thomas

doi:10.1017/UPO9781844654413

The Minds of the Moderns

Rationalism, Empiricism and Philosophy of Mind

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Janice Thomas, Heythrop College, University of London

Publisher:: Acumen Publishing
Online publication date:: February 2013
Print publication year:: 2009
Online ISBN:: 9781844654413
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/UPO9781844654413

Subjects:: Philosophy of Mind and Language, Philosophy

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Taking Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume in turn, Janice Thomas presents an authoritative and critical assessment of each of these canonical thinkers views of the notion of mind. The book examines each philosophers position on five key topics: the metaphysical character of minds and mental states; the nature and scope of introspection and self-knowledge; the nature of consciousness; the problem of mental causation and the nature of representation and intentionality. The exposition and examination of their positions is informed by present-day debates in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of psychology so that readers get a clear sense of the importance of these philosophers ideas, many of which continue to define our current notions of the mental. Again and again, philosophers return to the great early modern rationalist and empiricist philosophers for instruction and inspiration. Their views on the philosophy of mind are no exception and as Thomas shows they have much to offer contemporary debates.

"An excellent book. Its single greatest strength is the ease with which Thomas weaves in contemporary scholarly discussions (among either historians of philosophy, or philosophers of mind) with her text: she does this very successfully, without getting lost in scholarly details."

Charlie Huenemann

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