The Myth of Jones and the Mirror of Nature
Reflections on Introspection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10352247 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jay L Garfield (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-1 |
| Publication date | 1989-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8205 • E-ISSN: 1933-1592 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2108106 |
| OpenAlex | W2334232405 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
No piece of philosophical science fiction in this half of this century has been as significant in its impact on epistemology and the philosophy of mind as the Myth of Jones, the heart of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind [Sellars, 1956 (reprinted in {Sellars, i963}, to which all page references refer)] in which Jones, the great apocryphal forebear of cognitive science, and his great discovery the inner psychological episode are introduced. Nonetheless, not only have the devastating implications of this myth for the Myth of the Given not always been taken to heart in contemporary epistemology, but considerable confusion reigns concerning the central moral of the story. The authors of no less than four recent
Confusion · Empiricism · Epistemology · Introspection · Metaphysics · Mythology · Philosophy of mind · Psychoanalysis · Theology · Cognitive Science and Education Research · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |