Freedom of Mind and Other Essays

Stuart Hampshire

Published by Princeton University Press 1971

Freedom of Mind and Other Essays

Stuart Hampshire

Volume 1486 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400869367

Overview
Contents

About this book

Each of the fourteen essays in this volume is directed to some aspect of these two questions: What are the peculiarities of the concepts that we use to describe and to criticize the mental states and performances of human beings? What are the peculiarities of the knowledge that we may possess of our own mental states and attitudes and of the mental states and attitudes of others? Each of us is both a scientific student of others' beliefs, desires, and attitudes and the responsible author of his own beliefs and attitudes. The center of the freedom-of-mind problem, Professor Hampshire asserts, is the confusion that arises when we try to reconcile the explanations that we would give of the same mental state or process from the two different points of view.

Originally published in 1971.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Sources and Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Freedom of Mind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Subjunctive Conditionals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Multiply General Sentences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
Dispositions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
Fallacies in Moral Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
Ethics: A Defense of Aristotle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Ryle's The Concept of Mind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
The Analogy of Feeling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
On Referring and Intending Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Feeling and Expression Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Disposition and Memory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
Spinoza and the Idea of Freedom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
A Kind of Materialism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Sincerity and Single-Mindedness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232