Moral Foundations Of Philosophy Of Mind

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This volume brings together a collection of essays that explore in a new way how unacknowledged moral concerns are integral to debates in the philosophy of mind.The radical suggestion of the book is that we can make sense of the internal dynamics and cultural significance of these debates only when we understand the moral forces that shape them. Drawing inspiration from a variety of traditions including Wittgenstein, Lacan, phenomenology and analytic philosophy, the authors address a wide range of topics including the mind/body-problem, the problem of other minds, subjectivity and objectivity, the debates on mindreading, naturalism, reductive physicalism, representationalism and the ‘E-turn’; Dennett’s heterophenomenology, McDowell’s neo-Kantianism, Wittgenstein’s ‘private language’ considerations and his notion of an ‘attitude towards a soul’; repression, love, conscience, the difficulties of self-understanding, and the methods and aims of philosophy. Through a combination of detailed, immanent criticism and bold constructive work, the authors move the discussion to a new level, beyond humanistic or conservative critiques of naturalism and scientism. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Introduction (Joel Backström, Hannes Nykänen, Niklas Toivakainen, Thomas Wallgren)....Pages 1-27 Front Matter ....Pages 29-29 Mind and Moral Matter (Thomas Wallgren)....Pages 31-83 The Jaspers Case and the Paradox of the ‘Human’ Sciences (Federico Leoni)....Pages 85-99 Front Matter ....Pages 101-101 The Missing ‘E’: Radical Embodied Cognitive Science, Ecological Psychology and the Place of Ethics in Our Responsiveness to the Lifeworld (Phil Hutchinson)....Pages 103-127 All Souls: Wittgenstein and ‘eine Einstellung zur Seele’ (David R. Cerbone)....Pages 129-158 An Attitude Towards a Soul: Wittgenstein, Other Minds and the Mind (Edmund Dain)....Pages 159-177 Wittgenstein, Psychological Self-Ascriptions and the Moral Dimension of Our Inner Lives (Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen)....Pages 179-202 ‘Speak to us of love’: Some Difficulties in the Philosophical and Scientific Study of Love (Camilla Kronqvist)....Pages 203-227 Front Matter ....Pages 229-229 Philosophy of Mind and/as the Repression of Interpersonal Understanding (Joel Backström)....Pages 231-266 So Much Fuss About Nothing: The Moral Dynamics of the Mind-Body Problem (Niklas Toivakainen)....Pages 267-308 Who Wants to Be Understood? The Desire for Social Affirmation and the Existential Challenge of Self-Understanding (Fredrik Westerlund)....Pages 309-327 This Thing with Philosophy (Hannes Nykänen)....Pages 329-362 ‘Private Language’ and the Second Person: Wittgenstein and Løgstrup ‘Versus’ Levinas? (Rupert Read)....Pages 363-390 Back Matter ....Pages 391-395