2 papers in the library · publishing 2005
The Mind as a Scientific Object January 13, 2005 Timothy van Gelder
Philosophy aims to understand how things, in the broadest sense, hang together. Philosophy of mind specifically examines how mental phenomena fit together to form minds and how minds relate to other aspects of reality. The world is coherent in that such fits exist, and the philosophical challenge is to understand and elucidate the nature of these connections.
The Mind as a Scientific Object January 13, 2005 Don Ross
The author contends that Daniel Dennett's work on consciousness should be understood not as a completed theory but as a proposal for reconceptualizing the subject to make it amenable to scientific study, and that this reconceptualization points the way forward for consciousness research. The author argues that Dennett's approach succeeds where Edmund Husserl's project of 'scientific phenomenology' was abandoned by his students, and that criticisms of Dennett's account often miss this point.