"The geography of the mind is not a simple matter to discover, because its most basic features are a matter of dispute between philosophers. It cannot be explored simply by looking within ourselves at an inward landscape laid out to view"
— Kenny, Anthony (b. 1931)
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Oxford
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Date
1992
Metaphor
"The geography of the mind is not a simple matter to discover, because its most basic features are a matter of dispute between philosophers. It cannot be explored simply by looking within ourselves at an inward landscape laid out to view"
Metaphor in Context
The boundaries of the mind, as we have seen in Chapter 1, are placed in different places by different philosophers. The geography of the mind is not a simple matter to discover, because its most basic features are a matter of dispute between philosophers. It cannot be explored simply by looking within ourselves at an inward landscape laid out to view. What we see when we take this inner look will be partly determined by the philosophical viewpoint from which we look, or, we might say, by the conceptual spectacles we may be wearing.
(pp. 19-20)
(pp. 19-20)
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Citation
Anthony Kenny, The Metaphysics of Mind (Oxford UP, 1992).
Date of Entry
03/18/2013
