Consciousness in Neorealism: Perry, Montague, and Holt.
Matthias Neuber
Journal of the history of ideas 2025 DOI: 10.1353/jhi.2025.a949930 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues that Montague and Holt struggled with the problem of error and disagreed strongly on their solutions to it. |
Abstract
The early twentieth-century American neo-realists' approach to consciousness is historically reconstructed and critically discussed. With reference to the relevant works of Ralph Barton Perry, William Pepperrell Montague, and Edwin B. Holt, it is argued that Montague and Holt, in particular, struggled with the problem of error and disagreed strongly on their solutions to it. Finally, a line is drawn to related discussions in contemporary philosophy of mind.