The escape of the mind

Howard Rachlin

Oxford

2014

214 páginas

7h 8m

ISBN-13: 9780199322350

The escape of the Mind is a parte of a current movement in psychology and philosophy of mind that calls into question what is perhaps our most basic, most cherished, and universally accepted belief - that our minds are inside our boys. Howard Rachlin adopts the counterintuitive position that our minds, conscious and unconscious , lie not where our firmest (yet unsupported) introspection tell us they are, but in how we actually behave over the long run. Perhaps paradoxically, the book argues that our instrospections, no matter how positive we are about them, tell us absolutely nothing about our minds. The present version of this approach to the mind is called "teleological behaviorism".