Spectator in the Cartesian Theater: Where Theories of Mind Went Wrong since Descartes

By (author)Peter Slezak

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The ?Cartesian Theater? is Dennett?s famous metaphor for the idea that a homunculus or ?little man? watches the screen on which our thoughts appear. However, contrary to much academic teaching and scholarship, Spectator in the Cartesian Theater: Where Theories of Mind Went Wrong since Descartes shows that Descartes was not guilty of this fallacy for which he has been blamed. In his physiological writings neglected by philosophers, Descartes explained that the pseudo-explanation arises not from what is included in our theory of consciousness, but rather from what is missing. We fail to notice that the theory is incomplete because we are intuitively doing part of the explanatory work. That is, we are the spectators in the Cartesian Theater.

With detailed critiques, Peter Slezak shows that Searle?s Chinese Room Argument, Kripke?s theory of proper names, Davidson?s semantics of natural language and Kosslyn?s theory of visual imagery rely on what is intuitively meaningful to us rather than what follows from the

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Peter Slezak

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9781666923759

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