The Raymond Tallis reader / edited by Michael Grant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tallis, Raymond.

Contributor:

Grant, Michael, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy of mind.

Criticism (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xxx, 382 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave, 2000.

Contents:

Introduction: Raymond Tallis and the Bewitchment of Theory ix

Part I The Explicit Animal 1

1. The Poverty of Neurophilosophy 3

2. On the Edge of Certainty 29

3. Man, the Explicit Animal 65

Part II The Nature of Language 109

4. Reference Restored 111

5. Language and Consciousness 137

Part III The Centrality of the Conscious Human Agent 143

6. Recovering the Conscious Agent 145

7. The Hope of Progress 174

Part IV The Errors of Post-Saussurean Thought 225

8. Theorrhoea contra Realism 227

9. The Mirror Stage 253

10. The Shrink from Hell 284

11. Walking and Differance 289

Part V The Two Cultures 307

12. Evidence-based and Evidence-free Generalisations 309

13. Anti-Science and Organic Daydreams 330

Part VI The Nature of Art 343

14. The Freezing Coachman 345

15. The Difficulty of Arrival 354

16. Metaphysics and Gossip 362.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0333772717

0333772725

0312237685

OCLC:

44075907