Linda Brakel

Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In 'Unconscious knowing and other essays in psycho-philosophical analysis', Linda Brakel tackles a range of fascinating and puzzling phenomena that lie at the border between psychoanalysis and philosophy of mind. These include - unconscious knowing, vagueness, agency, the placebo effect, and even explanation itself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Prairie Wind Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780199581474
• ISBN-10: 0199581479
• Artikelnr.: 32308596

Autorenporträt

Linda A.W. Brakel is an adjunct Associate Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical School, and an Associated Scholar at that university's Department of Philosophy. She is also a practicing psychoanalyst, and a faculty member at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. Brakel's research on a-rational thinking, at the crossroads of psychoanalytic theory and the philosophy of mind and action, includes empirical research on categorizations and dual processes, as well as philosophical and psychoanalytic articles. Prior to the current volume, her most recent publication is Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and the A-Rational Mind (OUP, 2009)

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I Introduction
* 1: Introduction
* Part II: Unconscious knowledge /epistemology, philosophy of mind
* 2: Unconscious knowing: psychoanalytic evidence in support of a
radical epistemic view
* Part III: Vagueness and a-rationality/epistemology, philosophy of
mind, metaphysics
* 3: The limits of rationality: vagueness, a case study
* Part IV: Agency/ philosophy of action
* 4: Agency: 'me'--ness in action
* Part V: The placebo effect / psychoanalysis
* 5: The placebo effect: psychoanalytic theory can help explain the
phenomenon
* Part VI: Explanations / philosophy of science
* 6: Explanations and conclusions