The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lennon, Thomas M. (Editor), Stainton, Robert J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind ; 7
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Science.; Philosophy of mind.; Psychology.; Philosophy of Mind.; History of Philosophy.; Philosophy, general.; History of Science.; Science, general.; Psychology, general.

How is it that the mind perceives the words of a verse as a verse and not just as a string of words? One answer to this question is that to do so the mind itself must already be unified as a simple thing without parts (and perhaps must therefore be immortal). Kant called this argument the Achilles,...

Table of Contents:

• Did Plato Articulate the Achilles Argument?
• Aristotle on the Unity of Consciousness
• The Neoplatonic Achilles
• The Unity of the Soul and Contrary Appetites in Medieval Philosophy
• Hume, Spinoza and the Achilles Inference
• Locke and the Achilles Argument
• The Reverse Achilles in Locke
• Cudworth and Bayle: An Odd Couple?
• The Achilles Argument and the Nature of Matter in the Clarke Collins Correspondence
• Leibniz’s ‘Achilles’
• Hume’s Reply to the Achilles Argument
• Kant and Mendelssohn on the Implications of the ‘I Think’
• Kant on the Achilles Argument
• William James and the Achilles Argument
• The Binding Problem: Achilles in the 21st Century.