Open AccessSchelling and Peirce’s philosophy of mind
Author(s) -
Stanko Vlaški
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-081X
pISSN - 0351-2274
DOI - 10.2298/theo1701145v
Subject(s) - epistemology , monism , relation (database) , consciousness , philosophy , mind–body problem , physicalism , philosophy of mind , meaning (existential) , perspective (graphical) , contemporary philosophy , metaphysics , database , artificial intelligence , computer science
The crucial thesis of Schelling?s philosophy of nature, according to which the matter could be understood as the ?extinct mind?, Peirce understands as the only reasonable theory concerning the solution of the problem of the relation between mind and matter and considers it as the center of his synechism. American philosopher develops his synechistical standpoint within the series of articles which he wrote for the journal The Monist and defines synechism as the tendency to conceive every being as something continuous. The author interprets Peirce?s project as the part of the discussion about the mind-body problem which characterizes the so-called contemporary philosophy of mind, but by investigation of its Schellingian motives he tries to explain the comprehensive meaning of Peirce?s attempt. The last chapter of the paper aims to approach Schelling?s and Peirce?s consideration of the mind-body relation from the perspective which finds in them attempts of philosophical integration of the un-consciousness. Two idealistic strivings are implicitly demarcated with the regard to the mode of defining the place of the concept of self-consciousness.