The Labyrinth of Mind and World

Beyond Internalism-Externalism
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-24432-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

This book carries forward the discourse on the mind’s engagement with the world. It reviews the semantic and metaphysical debates around internalism and externalism, the location of content and the indeterminacy of meaning in language.

The volume analyzes the writings of Jackson, Chomsky, Putnam, Quine, Bilgrami and others, to reconcile opposing theories of language and the mind. It ventures into Cartesian ontology and Fregean semantics to understand how mental content becomes world-oriented in our linguistic communication. Further, the author explores the liaison between the mind and the world from the phenomenological perspective, particularly, Husserl’s linguistic turn and Heidegger’s intersubjective entreaty for Dasein. The book conceives of thought as a biological and socio-linguistic product which engages with the mind-world question through the conceptual and causal apparatuses of language.

A major intervention in the field of philosophy of language, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers interested in philosophy, phenomenology, epistemology and metaphysics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chakraborty, Sanjit

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. A Journey From Ontology Towards Semantics 2. Semantic Canvas: Mind and World 3. Meaning Atomism, Meaning Holism and Indeterminacy of Meaning 4. Self-Knowledge and Externalist Appeals 5. Comeback to Phenomenology from Language 6. Beyond Internalism–Externalism. Bibliography. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Sanjit Chakraborty is currently a teaching faculty in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore, and was previously a member of the faculty at the Department of Philosophy at Central University of Hyderabad, India. He is the author of Understanding Meaning and World: A Relook on Semantic Externalism (2016). He has also extensively published papers in journals and edited volumes on the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, ethics, epistemology and Indian philosophy.