Abstract

This new edition of Filosofie van de geest by René Marres is expanded at some points as well as translated into very readable English. Its purpose is not to analyze mind, intention, or action as such, but rather to collect and weigh the main arguments for and against the existence of irreducibly "mental" phenomena on a commonsense understanding of the "mental." This it does lucidly. Marres' mentalism varies from the Cartesian prototype in two chief respects: by affirming that the mind's awareness of its own contents is often fallible and corrigible, and by denying that the mind is ontologically or causally independent from the body.