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The Concept ‘Mind’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Extract

It is a curious thing about the philosophy of mind, that it includes surprisingly little about minds. In an average anthology on the subject, or a book like Ryle's, one finds discussions of thinking, imagining, believing, willing, remembering, and so on, but not of minds. It seems to be assumed that investigating these topics is investigating minds; but whether that is true is not itself made a topic for investigation.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1986

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References

1 The Mind/Brain Identity Theory, Borst, C.V. (ed.) (London: Macmillan, 1970), 67.Google Scholar

2 In ‘What is Philosophy?’, in Some Main Problems of Philosophy (London: Allen and Unwin, 1953), 4.Google Scholar