Simple Mindedness
In Defense of Naive Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mind
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10698127 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katalin Balog, Jennifer Hornsby |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 562 |
| Publication date | 1999-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2998289 |
| OpenAlex | W2086686193 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
Book synopsis: How is our conception of what there is affected by our counting ourselves as inhabitants of the natural world? How do our actions fit into a world that is altered through our agency? And how do we accommodate our understanding of one another as fellow subjects of experience—as beings with thoughts and wants and hopes and fears? These questions provide the impetus for the detailed discussions of ontology, human agency, and everyday psychological explanation presented in this book. The answers offer a distinctive view of questions about “the mind’s place in nature,” and they argue for a particular position in philosophy of mind: naive naturalism. This position opposes the whole drift of the last thirty or forty years’ philosophy of mind in the English-speaking world. Jennifer Hornsby sets naive naturalism against dualism, but without advancing the claims of “materialism,” “physicalism,” or “naturalism” as these have come to be known. She shows how we can, and why we should, abandon the view that thoughts and actions, to be seen as real, must be subject to scientific explanation
Analytic philosophy · Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · General interest · Metaphysics · Naturalism · Philosophy of mind · Simple (philosophy) · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.71 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |