Adam Toon
Biographic Data
| ID | 5993488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Toon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Toon |
| SIGNATURE | TOON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0482-2290 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
As if we had minds
1. When it comes to mental states posited by folk psychology, many of us have long had a nagging sense that neither industrial-strength realism nor eliminativism is a satisfactory option. Realists
(Still) defending mental fictionalism
This paper responds to commentaries on Mind as Metaphor by Craig Bourne and Emily Caddick Bourne, Tamás Demeter, László Kocsis and Krisztián Pete, Zoe Drayson, M. Jimena Clavel Vázquez, and Kendall L. Walton
Defending mental fictionalism
Mind as Metaphor develops a new approach to the mind. This approach is called mental fictionalism. It claims that our concept of mind is fundamentally metaphorical: we project the “outer world” of human culture (especially spoken and written language) onto the “inner world” of the mind. This inner world is a useful fiction: it does not exist, and yet talking as if it exists allows us to make sense of people’s behavior. The result is a view that s…
We have never been Cartesian
Humanism is the traditional approach in many disciplines, including history, philosophy, anthropology, and sociology. Humanists tend to assume that there is an important distinction between the knowing subject and the rest of the world. Posthumanism challenges this assumption, asking us to examine how the distinction between subject and object is constructed in the first place. To do so, posthumanists argue that we must abandon our traditional re…
Minds, materials and metaphors
What is the relationship between mental states and items of material culture, like notebooks, maps or lists? The extended mind thesis (ExM) offers an influential and controversial answer to this question. According to ExM, items of material culture can form part of the material basis for our mental states. Although ExM offers a radical view of the location of mental states, it fits comfortably with a traditional, representationalist account of th…
Introduction
Where is the understanding
Playing with molecules
The ontology of theoretical modelling
The ontology of theoretical modelling
Playing with molecules
Where is the understanding
Introduction
Minds, materials and metaphors
What is the relationship between mental states and items of material culture, like notebooks, maps or lists? The extended mind thesis (ExM) offers an influential and controversial answer to this question. According to ExM, items of material culture can form part of the material basis for our mental states. Although ExM offers a radical view of the location of mental states, it fits comfortably with a traditional, representationalist account of th…
We have never been Cartesian
Humanism is the traditional approach in many disciplines, including history, philosophy, anthropology, and sociology. Humanists tend to assume that there is an important distinction between the knowing subject and the rest of the world. Posthumanism challenges this assumption, asking us to examine how the distinction between subject and object is constructed in the first place. To do so, posthumanists argue that we must abandon our traditional re…
As if we had minds
1. When it comes to mental states posited by folk psychology, many of us have long had a nagging sense that neither industrial-strength realism nor eliminativism is a satisfactory option. Realists
(Still) defending mental fictionalism
This paper responds to commentaries on Mind as Metaphor by Craig Bourne and Emily Caddick Bourne, Tamás Demeter, László Kocsis and Krisztián Pete, Zoe Drayson, M. Jimena Clavel Vázquez, and Kendall L. Walton
Defending mental fictionalism
Mind as Metaphor develops a new approach to the mind. This approach is called mental fictionalism. It claims that our concept of mind is fundamentally metaphorical: we project the “outer world” of human culture (especially spoken and written language) onto the “inner world” of the mind. This inner world is a useful fiction: it does not exist, and yet talking as if it exists allows us to make sense of people’s behavior. The result is a view that s…
Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works) · Philosophy of language (3 works) · Philosophy of science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (2 works)