ANTI-EXTERNALISM [Hardcover] Joseph Mendola (Author) Price: $99.

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Editorial Reviews Review "Mendola has done an excellent job of collecting externalist arguments.... Mendola deserves our thanks for providing this resource alone. Combined with his unique perspectives, and its novel developments, the text will prove rewarding to any reader who has an interest in the internalist/externalist debate. Intellectual returns will increase exponentially for those with a strong background in philosophy of mind and language, and those who are willing to re-read this thoughtful text in its entirety. The issues raised in Anti-Externalism will merit careful attention for a long time to come."--Ben Sheredos, Metapsychology Online Reviews

Product Description Internalism in philosophy of mind is the thesis that all conditions that constitute a person's current thoughts and sensations, with their characteristic contents, are internal to that person's skin and contemporaneous. Externalism is the denial of internalism, and is now broadly popular. Joseph Mendola argues that internalism is true, and that there are no good arguments that support externalism. Anti-Externalism has three parts. Part I examines famous case-based arguments for externalism due to Kripke, Putnam, and Burge, and develops a unified internalist response incorporating rigidified description clusters. It argues that this proposal's only real difficulties are shared by all viable externalist treatments of both Frege's Hesperus-Phosphorus problem and Russell's problem of empty names, so that these difficulties cannot be decisive. Part II critically examines theoretical motivations for externalism entwined with causal accounts of perceptual content, as refined by Dretske, Fodor, Millikan, Papineau, and others, as well as motivations entwined with disjunctivism and the view that knowledge is the basic mental state. It argues that such accounts are false or do not provide proper motivation for externalism, and develops an internalist but physicalist account of sensory content involving intentional qualia. Part III critically examines theoretical motivations for externalism entwined with externalist accounts of language, including work of Brandom, Davidson, and Wittgenstein. It dialectically develops an internalist account of thoughts mediated by language that can bridge the internally constituted qualia of Part II and the rigidified description clusters of Part I.

About the Author Joseph Mendola is Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln. He is the author of Human Thought (Kluwer) and Goodness and Justice (Cambridge University Press). Product Details

Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 15, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0199534993 ISBN-13: 978-0199534999 Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.1 inches Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds

THINKING WITHOUT WORDS (Philosophy of Mind) [Paperback] Jose Luis Bermudez (Author) Price: $19.06 Editorial Reviews Review "Bermdez does what has waited a long time to be done, namely, he widens the scope of non-linguistic thought in analytic philosophy. The case he builds is strong and highly interesting, and it lies on firm conceptual and empirical ground.... The positive theory Bermdez develops in Thinking should vaporise the last doubts of the analytic philosophers concerning the possibility of non-linguistic thought. The book is excellent in this respect and that is why I recommend it to anyone still having doubts about the issue."Psyche "Bermdez has done his homework; he has read a lot of psychology (and neurology; and anthropology) all of which he is prepared to mine for philosophical payoff. That's admirable, and you'll like the bibliography even if you don't like text."--Jerry Fodor, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University

Product Description Thinking without Words provides a challenging new theory of the nature of non-linguistic thought. Many scientific disciplines treat non-linguistic creatures as thinkers, explaining their behavior in terms of their thoughts about themselves and about the environment. But this theorizing has proceeded without any clear account of the types of thinking available to nonlinguistic creatures. One consequence of this is that ascriptions of thoughts to non-linguistic creatures have frequently been held to be metaphorical and not to be taken at face value. Bermdez offers a conceptual framework for treating human infants and non-human animals as genuine thinkers. Whereas existing discussions of thought at the non-linguistic level have concentrated on how such thoughts might be physically realized, Bermdez approaches the problem by considering what is required in explaining behavior in psychological terms. In developing a positive account of non-linguistic thought he shows how the experimental tools used by developmental psychologists and students of animal behavior can be used to give a precise account of the way in which a human infant or non-human animal is representing the world. Much of the book is devoted to exploring the differences between thinking without words and language-based thinking. Bermdez argues that there are clear limits to the expressive power of non-linguistic thought. Nonetheless, he identifies primitive analogues at the non-linguistic level that can be used to explain sophisticated non-linguistic behaviors. Thinking Without Words is the first full-length philosophical study of this important topic. It is written with an interdisciplinary readership in mind and will appeal to philosophers, psychologists, and students of animal behavior. About the Author Jos Luis Bermdez is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. Product Details

Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (October 17, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0195341600 ISBN-13: 978-0195341607 Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.3 inches Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces

APPREHENDING THE INACCESSIBLE: FREUDIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY (SPEP) [Paperback] Richard Askay (Author), Jensen Farquhar (Author) Price: $29.95 Product Description Throughout history philosophers have relentlessly pursued what may be called "inaccessible domains." This book explores how the traditions of existential phenomenology relate to Freudian psychoanalysis. A clear, succinct, and systematic account of the philosophical presuppositions of psychoanalytic theory and practice, this work offers a deeper and richer understanding and appreciation of Freudian thought, as well as its antecedents and influences. With its unique perspective on Freud's work, Apprehending the Inaccessible puts readers in a better position to appreciate his contributions and evaluate the relationship between his and other philosophical world views. The authors, both of whom have extensive backgrounds in philosophy and psychology, present balanced critical analyses of crucial developments in, for example, the evolution of the Freudian notion of the unconscious, and the engagement of existential phenomenology with Freudian psychoanalysis. Askay and Farquhar then consider-often for the first time-individual thinkers' reflections on and interpretations of Freud, ranging from the primary figures in existential phenomenology to the most prominent figures in the existential psychoanalytic movement. Even as their work offers a new approach to Freudian thought, it reasserts the importance of alternative views found in existential phenomenology as those views pertain to psychoanalysis and the question of apprehending the inaccessible. About the Author Richard Askay is professor of philosophy at the University of Portland. Jensen Farquhar is a practicing psychotherapist and an editor in the field of psychology and philosophy. Product Details

Paperback: 480 pages Publisher: Northwestern University Press; 1 edition (January 27, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0810122286 ISBN-13: 978-0810122284 Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds