Harvey Mullane
Biographic Data
| ID | 5722932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harvey Mullane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harvey |
| FAMILY NAME | Mullane |
| SIGNATURE | MULLANE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Defense, dreams and rationality
Neurotic Action
Behaviour which is said to be motivated primarily or exclusively by unconscious desires and beliefs has created especially troublesome problems for action theorists. Those philosophers who have been captivated by the reason-cause, explanation description distinctions have tended to construe “neurotic” behaviour as something very much apart from “normal” behaviour, — something so different that neurotics, on such a theory, seem to be turned from a…
Dreaming as an Action
In comments on my “Moral Responsibility for Dreams,” J. F. M. Hunter claims that I fail to see that “‘Dreaming is not an action’ is a grammatical remark, [not an “empirical” one] and as such makes no assertion as to what is or may be the case in our souls, but only about how we may talk about certain psychological goings-on.” (p. 535) Hunter argues that ‘Dreaming is not an action’ is a logical remark in the way that ‘Bachelors are unmarried’ is a…
Unconscious Emotion
Moral Responsibility for Dreams
If someone reports that he had been thinking that he would very much like to seduce his sister, an appropriate comment might be: “Shame on you for having such a nasty idea.” But if one reports that he dreamt he seduced his sister the situation appears quite different, for while we might be repulsed by the dream shaming seems, to say the least, far less appropriate. We do not ordinarily, if ever, say things like, “It was bad (naughty, immoral, etc…
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Unconscious Emotion
Moral Responsibility for Dreams
If someone reports that he had been thinking that he would very much like to seduce his sister, an appropriate comment might be: “Shame on you for having such a nasty idea.” But if one reports that he dreamt he seduced his sister the situation appears quite different, for while we might be repulsed by the dream shaming seems, to say the least, far less appropriate. We do not ordinarily, if ever, say things like, “It was bad (naughty, immoral, etc…
Dreaming as an Action
In comments on my “Moral Responsibility for Dreams,” J. F. M. Hunter claims that I fail to see that “‘Dreaming is not an action’ is a grammatical remark, [not an “empirical” one] and as such makes no assertion as to what is or may be the case in our souls, but only about how we may talk about certain psychological goings-on.” (p. 535) Hunter argues that ‘Dreaming is not an action’ is a logical remark in the way that ‘Bachelors are unmarried’ is a…
Neurotic Action
Behaviour which is said to be motivated primarily or exclusively by unconscious desires and beliefs has created especially troublesome problems for action theorists. Those philosophers who have been captivated by the reason-cause, explanation description distinctions have tended to construe “neurotic” behaviour as something very much apart from “normal” behaviour, — something so different that neurotics, on such a theory, seem to be turned from a…
Defense, dreams and rationality
Psychoanalysis (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Dream (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Unconscious mind (3 works) · Action (physics) (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Phenomenon (2 works)