The Mind’s Provisions; A Critique of Cognitivism

Vincent-Descombes

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In his book The Mind’s Provisions: A Critique of Cognitivism, Vincent Descombes, a French philosopher we could qualify as Wittgensteinian, addresses the question “Where is the mind?” Responses to this question divide into two camps: inside say the mentalistic heirs of Descartes, among whom we find modern cognitivists; outside claim the philosophers of the public usage of signs drawing upon Wittgenstein and Pierce.

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