The Philosopher
David H. M. Brooks
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- South African
- Schools:
- Analytic philosophy
- Branchs:
- Western philosophy, Philosophy of the mind
- Period:
- 20th-century philosophy
The synopsis
The works
The Unity of Mind
On living in an Unjust Society
Social Ethics
Are personality traits inherited?
Memories and the world
Strawson, Hume, and the unity of consciousness
Group minds
Secondary qualities and representation
How to perform a reduction
Reduction comes to supervenience plus explicability. Thus biconditionals, multiple realizability, etc., are irrelevant. Biology is already reduced (mostly via functional explanation), and psychology looks promising. Nice.
The Unity of the Mind
The impossibility of psycho-physical laws
Cartesian inner space
How to solve the hard problem: A predictable inexplicability