Hooker, C. A. and Christensen, Wayne (1998) Towards a new science of the mind : wide content and the metaphysics of organizational properties in non-linear dynamical models. Mind and Language, 13 (1). pp. 98-109. doi:10.1111/1468-0017.00067 ISSN 1468-0017.

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Abstract

Tim van Gelder, following Brandom, Collins and others, uses the so-called wide content of capacities which support social, norm governed activities, such as language, to argue for their anti-natural, abstract, but socially instituted nature and thence for the failure of the entire traditional mind-body discussion as ill-posed. We argue that his former conclusion is wrong, that such properties are naturalisable, complicated organisational properties of the complexly organised, non-linearly interactive systems that human beings are. This analysis also provides principled support, but on other grounds, for van Gelder’s latter conclusion. We outline a new naturalist approach to the organisational capacities of such systems that is intended to ground their biological, cognitive and social characters.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy
Journal or Publication Title:	Mind and Language
Publisher:	Blackwell Publishing
ISSN:	1468-0017
Official Date:	1998
Dates:	Date Event 1998 Published
Volume:	13
Number:	1
Page Range:	pp. 98-109
DOI:	10.1111/1468-0017.00067
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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