Mind as Metaphor with Prof Daniel D. Hutto (University of Wollongong)
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Загружено: 2023-06-22
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Egenis seminar/book launch with Prof Daniel D. Hutto (University of Wollongong).
This celebrates the publication of Adam Toon’s new book, Mind as Metaphor: A Defence of Mental Fictionalism (Oxford University Press, 2023). We often think of the mind as an inner world. Once, this inner world might have been a spirit or soul - a ‘ghost in the machine’, in Gilbert Ryle's memorable phrase. Nowadays, we are told it will be found in the brain. Mind as Metaphor argues that this is a mistake. In fact, our concept of mind is fundamentally metaphorical: we project the ‘outer world’ of human culture onto the ‘inner world’ of the mind. This is an enormously powerful way of making sense of people and their behaviour. But we must not forget that this inner world is only a useful fiction. Feature a talk responding to the book by Professor Daniel D. Hutto, Senior Professor of Philosophical Psychology at the University of Wollongong. Professor Hutto is one of the world’s leading philosophers of mind and cognitive science.
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