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Mind world : essays in phenomenology and ontology / David Woodruff Smith

Author
Smith, David Woodruff, 1944-
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Contents
Three facets of consciousness -- The cogito circa A.D. 2000 -- Return to consciousness -- Consciousness in action -- Background ideas -- Intentionality naturalized? -- Consciousness and actuality -- Basic categories -- The beetle in the box.
Summary
This collection explores the structure of consciousness and its place in the world, or inversely the structure of the world and the place of consciousness in it. Amongst the topics covered are: the phenomenological aspects of experience (inner awareness, self-awareness), dependencies between experience and the world (the role of the body in experience, the role of culturally formed background ideas) and the basic ontological categories found in the world at large (unity, state-of-affairs, connectedness, dependence and intentionality). Developing ideas drawn from historical figures such as Descartes, Husserl, Aristotle, and Whitehead, the essays together demonstrate the interdependence of ontology and phenomenology and its significance for the philosophy of mind.
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ISBN
9781139165327 (ebook)
9780521832038 (hardback)
9780521539739 (paperback)
Note
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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