Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Body, Mind, and Method

Essays in Honor of Virgil C. Aldrich

  • Book
  • © 1979

Overview

Editors:
  1. Donald F. Gustafson
    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Bangs L. Tapscott
    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 138)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Simple Seeing

    • Fred I. Dretske
    Pages 1-15

  3. The ‘What’ and the ‘How’

    • Alastair Hannay
    Pages 17-36

  4. Dreams, Scepticism, and Waking Life

    • T. M. Reed
    Pages 37-64

  5. Reasonable Belief Without Justification

    • Kai Nielsen
    Pages 65-75

  6. The Unnaturalness of Epistemology

    • Richard Rorty
    Pages 77-92

  7. On the Absence of Phenomenology

    • Daniel Dennett
    Pages 93-113

  8. Wittgenstein on Psychological Verbs

    • Godfrey Vesey
    Pages 115-127

  9. Agents, Mechanisms, and Other Minds

    • Douglas C. Long
    Pages 129-148

  10. ‘Pain’, Grammar, and Physicalism

    • Donald Gustafson
    Pages 149-166

  11. Memory and Causality

    • Stanley Munsat
    Pages 167-177

  12. Calculations, Reasons and Causes

    • John V. Canfield
    Pages 179-195

  13. Deterministic Predictions

    • Bangs L. Tapscott
    Pages 197-202

  14. Purposes and Poetry

    • Keith Gunderson
    Pages 203-224

  15. Beauty and Sex

    • Guy Sircello
    Pages 225-239

  16. Fictional Objects: How they are and how they aren’t

    • Robert Howell
    Pages 241-294

  17. A Biographical Sketch

    • Virgil C. Aldrich
    Pages 295-295

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 297-312
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Simple seeing. Plain talking. Language in use and persons in action. These are among the themes of Virgil Aldrich's writings, from the 1930's onward. Throughout these years, he has been an explorer of conceptual geography: not as a foreign visitor studying an alien land, but close up 'in the language in which we live, move, and have our being'. This is his work. It is clear to those who know him best that he also has fun at it. Yet, in the terms of his oft-cited distinction, it is equally clear that he is to be counted not among the funsters of philosophy, but among its most committed workers. Funsters are those who attempt to do epistemology, metaphysics, or analysis by appealing to examples which are purely imaginary, totally fictional, as unrealistic as you like, 'completely unheard of'. Such imaginative wilfullness takes philosophers away from, not nearer to, 'the rough ground' (Wittgenstein) where our concepts have their origin and working place. In the funsters' imagined, 'barely possible' (but actually impossible) world, simple seeing becomes transformed into the sensing of sense-data; plain talk is rejected as imprecise, vague, and misleading; and per­ sons in action show up as ensouled physical objects in motion. Then the fly is in the bottle, buzzing out its tedious tunes: the problem of perception of the external world; the problem of meaning and what it is; the mind-body problem. Image-mongering has got the best of image-management.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Body, Mind, and Method

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Virgil C. Aldrich

  • Editors: Donald F. Gustafson, Bangs L. Tapscott

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9479-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1979

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1013-0Published: 30 November 1979

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-9481-2Published: 17 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-9479-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 314

  • Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation