Vol. 36 No. 2 (2016)
Critical Notes

Towards a Genealogy of the Mind: A Philosophical Approach to Psychological Concepts

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  • Antoni Gomila
Antoni Gomila
Universitat de les Illes Balears
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36446/af.2016.25

Published 2016-11-01

Keywords

  • Perspectiva de segunda persona,
  • Conceptos mentales,
  • Atribución mental,
  • Criterios,
  • Wittgenstein
  • Second-Person Perspective,
  • Mental Concepts,
  • Mental Attribution,
  • Criteria,
  • Wittgenstein
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Abstract

In Sentir, desear, creer: Una aproximación filosófica a los conceptos psicológicos, Diana Pérez sets for herself an ambitious task, analogous to ryle's in The Concept of Mind: that of offering a unified account of the ontology, epistemology, semantics and, partly, psychology of mental concepts. Its main contribution lies in a genealogical perspective, grounded in the development of mental concept attribution, from a realist standpoint. To this extent, its most original contribution is the idea of a second-person perspective, that of intersubjective interaction, as the way through which one gets involved in the mental realm. In sum, a highly relevant contribution.

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References

Pérez, D. (2013), Sentir, desear, creer: Una aproximación filosófica a los conceptos psicológicos, Buenos Aires, Prometeo.