Intentional Implications: The Impact of a Reduction of Mind on Philosophy

By Daniel B. Barwick

This book is an examination of the implications of a mature Humean-Sartrean analysis of mind, including its impact on perception, personal identity, weakness of the will, and cognitivism. Contents: INTRODUCTION; TERMS; Identity; Existence; Knowledge; Paradigmatic Uses of Material Identity; Qualities; Universals; Indiscernibility; Substance; Change; AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; PERSONAL IDENTITY; THE GIVEN; Theory Neutral Observations; Logical Entailments of the Absence of a Given; Materialism; THE DREAM ARGUMENT; AKRASIA; The Problem; The Nature of Desiring; COGNITIVISM; APPENDICES.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819195146
• ISBN13: 9780819195142
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 172 Pages