Freud and Philosophy of Mind, Volume 1

By Jerome C. Wakefield

Book Overview

1. Introduction: Freud and the Transformation of Psychology.- 2. "Unconscious" as "Mental but Not Conscious" Why Examples of Repression, the Dynamic Unconscious, and Psychopathology Are Largely Irrelevant to Freud's Philosophy-of-Mind Argument.- 3. The Semantic Objection to Freud's Thesis.- 4. Freud's Response to the Semantic Objection: Concepts, Essentialism, and the Definition of 'Mental'.- 5. Freud and Brentano: The Cartesian Tradition that Confronted Freud.- 6. Cartesianism Without the Consciousness Criterion: Solving the Mystery of Freud's Missing Account of the Mental.- 7. Freud's Direct Arguments Against the Consciousness Criterion: Does Freud Beg the Question of the Boundary of Psychology?.- 8: Freud on the Mind-Body Problem: Turning Psychophysical Parallelism on Its Head.- 9. Freud's Argument for Brain Representationality as the Essence of the Mental.- 10. Conclusion: The Freudian Century in Philosophy of Mind.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030404358
• ISBN13: 9783030404352
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"