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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415635624
• ISBN13: 9780415635622
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"