The Labyrinth of Mind and WorldSanjit Chakraborty

This book carries forward the discourse on the mind’s engagement with the world. It reviews the semantic and metaphysical debates around internalism and externalism the location of content and the indeterminacy of meaning in language. The volume analyzes the writings of Jackson Chomsky Putnam Quine Bilgrami and others to reconcile opposing theories of language and the mind. It ventures into Cartesian ontology and Fregean semantics to understand how mental content becomes world-oriented in our linguistic communication. Further the author explores the liaison between the mind and the world from the phenomenological perspective particularly Husserl’s linguistic turn and Heidegger’s intersubjective entreaty for Dasein. The book conceives of thought as a biological and socio-linguistic product which engages with the mind-world question through the conceptual and causal apparatuses of language. A major intervention in the field of philosophy of language this book will be useful for scholars and researchers interested in philosophy phenomenology epistemology and metaphysics.