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ANTI-EXTERNALISM [Hardcover]

Joseph Mendola 

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"Mendola has done an excellent job of collecting externalistarguments.... Mendola deserves our thanks for providing this resourcealone. Combined with his unique perspectives, and its noveldevelopments, the text will prove rewarding to any reader who has aninterest in the internalist/externalist debate. Intellectual returns willincrease exponentially for those with a strong background in philosophyof mind and language, and those who are willing to re-read thisthoughtful text in its entirety. The issues raised in Anti-Externalism will

merit careful attention for a long time to come."--Ben Sheredos, Metapsychology Online Reviews 

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Internalism in philosophy of mind is the thesis that all conditions that constitute a person's current thoughts and sensations,with their characteristic contents, are internal to that person's skin and contemporaneous. Externalism is the denial of internalism, and is now broadly popular. Joseph Mendola argues that internalism is true, and that there are no good argumentsthat support externalism.

 Anti-Externalism has three parts. Part I examines famous case-based arguments for externalism due to Kripke, Putnam, andBurge, and develops a unified internalist response incorporating rigidified description clusters. It argues that this proposal'sonly real difficulties are shared by all viable externalist treatments of both Frege's Hesperus-Phosphorus problem andRussell's problem of empty names, so that these difficulties cannot be decisive. Part II critically examines theoreticalmotivations for externalism entwined with causal accounts of perceptual content, as refined by Dretske, Fodor, Millikan,Papineau, and others, as well as motivations entwined with disjunctivism and the view that knowledge is the basic mentalstate. It argues that such accounts are false or do not provide proper motivation for externalism, and develops an internalist but physicalist account of sensory content involving intentional qualia. Part III critically examines theoretical motivations for 

externalism entwined with externalist accounts of language, including work of Brandom, Davidson, and Wittgenstein. Itdialectically develops an internalist account of thoughts mediated by language that can bridge the internally constituted qualiaof Part II and the rigidified description clusters of Part I.

About the Author

Joseph Mendola is Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln. He is theauthor of  Human Thought (Kluwer) and Goodness and Justice (Cambridge University Press).

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• Hardcover: 368 pages

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 15, 2009)• Language: English

• ISBN-10: 0199534993

• ISBN-13: 978-0199534999

• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.1 inches

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THINKING WITHOUT WORDS (Philosophy of Mind) [Paperback]

Jose Luis Bermudez (Author)

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"Bermúdez does what has waited a long time to be done, namely, hewidens the scope of non-linguistic thought in analytic philosophy. Thecase he builds is strong and highly interesting, and it lies on firmconceptual and empirical ground.... The positive theory Bermúdezdevelops in Thinking should vaporise the last doubts of the analytic philosophers concerning the possibility of non-linguistic thought. The book is excellent in this respect and that is why I recommend it toanyone still having doubts about the issue."—  Psyche

"Bermúdez has done his homework; he has read a lot of psychology(and neurology; and anthropology) all of which he is prepared to minefor philosophical payoff. That's admirable, and you'll like the

 bibliography even if you don't like text."--Jerry Fodor, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University

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Thinking without Words provides a challenging new theory of the nature of non-linguistic thought. Many scientificdisciplines treat non-linguistic creatures as thinkers, explaining their behavior in terms of their thoughts about themselves andabout the environment. But this theorizing has proceeded without any clear account of the types of thinking available to non-linguistic creatures. One consequence of this is that ascriptions of thoughts to non-linguistic creatures have frequently beenheld to be metaphorical and not to be taken at face value. Bermúdez offers a conceptual framework for treating human infantsand non-human animals as genuine thinkers. Whereas existing discussions of thought at the non-linguistic level haveconcentrated on how such thoughts might be physically realized, Bermúdez approaches the problem by considering what isrequired in explaining behavior in psychological terms. In developing a positive account of non-linguistic thought he showshow the experimental tools used by developmental psychologists and students of animal behavior can be used to give a precise account of the way in which a human infant or non-human animal is representing the world. Much of the book isdevoted to exploring the differences between thinking without words and language-based thinking. Bermúdez argues thatthere are clear limits to the expressive power of non-linguistic thought. Nonetheless, he identifies primitive analogues at thenon-linguistic level that can be used to explain sophisticated non-linguistic behaviors. Thinking Without Words is the first

full-length philosophical study of this important topic. It is written with an interdisciplinary readership in mind and willappeal to philosophers, psychologists, and students of animal behavior.

About the Author

José Luis Bermúdez is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis.

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• Paperback: 240 pages

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (October 17, 2007)

• Language: English

• ISBN-10: 0195341600

•ISBN-13: 978-0195341607

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APPREHENDING THE INACCESSIBLE: FREUDIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS 

AND EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY

(SPEP) [Paperback]

Richard Askay

(Author), Jensen Farquhar (Author)

Price: $29.95 

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Throughout history philosophers have relentlessly pursued what may be called "inaccessible domains." This book explores how thetraditions of existential phenomenology relate to Freudian psychoanalysis. A clear, succinct, and systematic account of the philosophical presuppositions of psychoanalytic theory and practice,this work offers a deeper and richer understanding and appreciation of Freudian thought, as well as its antecedents and influences.

With its unique perspective on Freud's work, Apprehending theInaccessible puts readers in a better position to appreciate hiscontributions and evaluate the relationship between his and other 

 philosophical world views. The authors, both of whom have extensive backgrounds in philosophy and psychology, present balanced critical analyses of crucial developments in, for example, the evolution of the Freudian notion of the unconscious,and the engagement of existential phenomenology with Freudian psychoanalysis. Askay and Farquhar then consider-often for the first time-individual thinkers' reflections on and interpretations of Freud, ranging from the primary figures in existential phenomenology to the most prominent figures in the existential psychoanalytic movement. Even as their work offers a newapproach to Freudian thought, it reasserts the importance of alternative views found in existential phenomenology as thoseviews pertain to psychoanalysis and the question of apprehending the inaccessible.

About the Author

Richard Askay is professor of philosophy at the University of Portland.Jensen Farquhar is a practicing psychotherapist and an editor in the field of psychology and philosophy.

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• Paperback: 480 pages

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press; 1 edition (January 27, 2006)

• Language: English

• ISBN-10: 0810122286

• ISBN-13: 978-0810122284

• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches

• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds