When Minds Converse - A Social Genealogy of the Human Soul

When Minds Converse argues that we do not speak because our human minds are special; our minds are special because we can speak. The book is original in method as well as adventurous in scope, developing an empirically informed thought experiment to defend its society-first view of the mind.

List of contents

• 1: Preliminaries to the argument


• 2: Agency with judgment


• 3: Rationality with reasoning


• 4: Perception with percipience


• 5: Normativity and value


• 6: Responsibility and free will


• 7: Personhood and self-identity


• Conclusion: toward ethics and politics

About the author

Philip Pettit is L.S.Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. Pettit first taught philosophy in his native Ireland at University College, Dublin. He went on to hold a Research Fellowship at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and become Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bradford, before moving to the Australian National University in 1982. He joined
Princeton University in 2002 and, since 2013, has held that post jointly with his position at the ANU. When Minds Converse draws on The John Locke Lectures in Philosophy that he gave in Oxford in 2019.

Summary

When Minds Converse argues that we do not speak because our human minds are special; our minds are special because we can speak. The book is original in method as well as adventurous in scope, developing an empirically informed thought experiment to defend its society-first view of the mind.

Product details

• Authors: Editor, Pettit, Philip Pettit
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.2025
• EAN: 9780198863113
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886311-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy