La Denrée Mentale

by Vincent Descombes

French

Genres: Philosophy

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Vincent Descombes is a French philosopher. His major work has been in the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. He is particularly noted for a lengthy critique in two volumes of the project he calls cognitivism, and which is, roughly, the view current in philosophy of mind that mental and psychological facts can ultimately be treated as, or reduced to, physical facts about the brain.

Descombes has also written an introduction to modern French philosophy (Le même et l'autre) focused on the transition, after 1960, from a focus on the three H's, Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger to the "three masters of suspicion", Marx, Nietzsche and Freud.

Vincent Descombes teaches at the Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron, part of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He holds an appointment in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Vincent Descombes was also a member of the French Marxist group Socialisme ou Barbarie.

Reviews

[Viktor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Krånglig och för lång. Hade lätt kunnat trimmas mer rejält utan att förlora det centrala argumentet: Kognitivism som bas till att förstå människan i allmänhet och likhetstecknet som sätts mellan hjärna och dator i synnerhet är megacringe och de som försvarar dessa teser framstår som borttappade boomers som bara läst Descartes sedan de föddes på 1600-talet (väldigt pinsamt) men som misslyckas med att se de inre motsägelserna i sina antaganden (ännu pinsammare). Kamala Harris sammanfattar denna bok bäst: ”You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”

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