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10UIn Samuel Guttenplan (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind, Blackwell. 2017.Psychoanalytic theory describes a range of motives, mental states, and processes of which persons are ordinarily unaware, and which they can acknowledge, avow, and alter only with difficulty. Freud's collective term for these, and for the functional division of the mind to which he assigned them, was the unconscious. (For references and further discussion of italicized terms seeLaplanche and Pointalais, 1973). The term has also been used to describe other mental states, such as hypothesized beli…Read more
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128Mental States, Natural Kinds and Psychophysical LawsAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 52 (1): 195-236. 1978.
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57Mental States, Natural Kinds and Psychophysical LawsAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 52 (1): 195-236. 1978.
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4Philosophical Essays on Freud (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1982.Philosophers are increasingly coming to recognize the importance of Freudian theory for the understanding of the mind. The picture Freud presents of the mind's growth and organization holds implications not just for such perennial questions as the relation of mind and body, the nature of memory and personal identity, the interplay of cognitive and affective processes in reasoning and acting, but also for the very way in which these questions are conceived and an interpretation of the mind is sou…Read more
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Kantian neuroscience and radical interpreation : ways of meaning in the Bayesian BrianIn Gustavo Ortiz-Millán & Juan Antonio Cruz Parcero (eds.), Mind, Language and Morality: Essays in Honor of Mark Platts, Routledge. 2018.
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Reply: Irrationality, interpretation and divisionIn Cynthia Macdonald & Graham Macdonald (eds.), Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation, Blackwell. pp. 1--461. 1995.
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666IX*—Wittgenstein and PhysicalismProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 75 (1): 121-146. 1975.James Hopkins; IX*—Wittgenstein and Physicalism, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 75, Issue 1, 1 June 1975, Pages 121–146, https://doi.org/10.109.
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538Psychoanalytic and Scientific ReasoningBritish Journal of Psychotherapy 13 (1). 1996.Psychoanalytic reasoning is an instance of inference to the best explanation and provides an extension of commonsense psychology that is potentially cogent, cumulative, and radical.
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2087Conscience and Conflict: Darwin, Freud, and the Origins of Human AggressionIn Dylan Evans & Pierre Cruse (eds.), Emotion, Evolution, and Rationality, Oxford University Press. 2004.Darwin's and Freud's theories cohere in explaining human group conflict.
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343Introduction: Philosophical Essays on FreudIn R. Wollheim & J. Hopkins (eds.), Philosophical Essays on Freud, Cambridge University Press. 1982.Psychoanalytic theory can be regarded as a cogent extension of commonsense psychology by interpretive means internal to it.
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1160Wittgenstein, Davidson, and Radical InterpretationIn F. Hahn (ed.), The Library of Living Philosophers: Donald Davidson, Open Court. 1999.Davidson's account of interpretation is closely related to that offered by Wittgenstein in his remarks on following a rule.
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735Infants apparently start to understand their experience via the linked concepts of numerical identity and spatio-temporally continuous objects during the forth month of life. As described by Piaget and Klein, this development requires them to synthesise their experience in a new ways: in particular they must start to acknowledge that the main target of their anger at frustration and the main target of their gratitude and love are the same person, who is unique and irreplaceable. This seems to …Read more
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3646The Interpretation of DreamsIn Jerome Neu (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Freud, Cambridge University Press. 2006.Freud's account of dreams has a cogent interpretive basis.
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591Conflict Creates an Unconscious IdNeuropsychoanalysis 15. 2013.This note is part of a discussion of Mark Solm's 'The Conscious Id'. It seconds Solms' claim that recent work in neuroscience indicates that the subcortical mechanisms that generate motives also generate consciousness, and that his enables us to integrate neuroscience with the Freudian Ego and Id. Still this is not reason to regard the Id as conscious. If we take full account of the role of conflict, as described in terms of the Freudian superego, we can see that the complex role of aggressio…Read more
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1447Visual geometryPhilosophical Review 82 (1): 3-34. 1973.We cannot imagine two straight lines intersecting at two points even though they may do so. In this case our abilities to imagine depend upon our abilities to visualise.
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4792Psychoanalysis, metaphor, and the concept of mindIn M. Levine (ed.), The Analytic Freud, Routledge. pp. 11--35. 2000.In order to understand both consciousness and the Freudian unconscious we need to understand the notion of innerness that we apply to the mind. We can partly do so via the use of the theory of conceptual metaphor, and this casts light on a number of related topics
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488Evolution, Consciousness, and the Internality of MindIn P. Carruthers & A. Chamberlen (eds.), Evolution and the Human Mind: Modularity, Language and Meta-Cognition, Cambridge University Press. pp. 276. 2000.Understanding the notion of innerness that we ascribe to mental items is central to understanding the problem of consciousness, and we can do so in evolutionary and physical terms.
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467Psychoanalysis Interpretation and ScienceIn J. Hopkins & A. Savile (eds.), Psychoanalysis Mind and Art, Blackwell. 1992.Our commonsense understanding of meaning and motive is realized via the semantic encoding of causal role. Appreciating this together with other features of semantic theories enables us to see that methodological critiques of psychoanalysis, such as those by Popper and Grunbaum, systematically fail to take account of empirical data, and if taken seriously would render commonsense understanding of mind and language void. This is particularly problematic if we consider much of what we regard ours…Read more
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792Rules, Privacy, and PhysicalismIn J. Ellis & D. Guevara (eds.), Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mind, Oxford University Press. pp. 107-144. 2012.Wittgenstein's arguments about rule-following and private language turn both on interpretation and what he called our 'pictures' of the mind. His remarks about these can be understood in terms of the conceptual metaphor of the mind as a container, and enable us to give a better account of physicalism.
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541Freud's biological notion of a death drive is not well founded but a number of closely associated notions (including those of a drive, and of aggression turned against the self) are.
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566Kantian Neuroscience and Radical InterpretationIn Festschfrift for Mark Platts, . forthcoming.This is an unedited version of a paper written in 2012 accepted for publication in a forthcoming Festschrift for Mark Platts. In it I argue that the Helmholtz/Bayes tradition of free energy neuroscience begun by Geoffrey Hinton and his colleagues, and now being carried forward by Karl Friston and his, can be seen as a fulfilment of the Quine/Davidson program of radical interpretation, and also of Quine’s conception of a naturalized epistemology. This program, in turn, is rooted in Helmholtz’s …Read more
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755This paper argues that psychoanalysis enables us to see mental disorder as rooted in emotional conflicts, particularly concerning aggression, to which our species has a natural liability. These can be traced in development, and seem rooted in both parent-offspring conflict and in-group cooperation for out-group conflict. In light of this we may hope that work in psychoanalysis and neuroscience will converge in indicating the most likely paths to a better neurobiological understanding of mental …Read more
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1046Epistemology and Depth PsychologyIn C. Wright & P. Clark (eds.), Mind, Psychoanalysis, and Science, Blackwell. 1988.Psychoanalysis provides the best explanation of a range of empirical phenomena; epistemic criics do not take this fully into account.
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826Wittgenstein and the life of signsIn Max Kölbel & Bernhard Weiss (eds.), Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance, Routledge. 2004.Both Wittgenstein's account of following a rule and his private language argument turn on the notion of interpretation.
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