“Interrelationist” critiques of the Cartesian separation
…most of the challenges have been of a general sort that I will call ‘interrelationist’. Characteristically, they accept as a premise that the mental, or at any rate the cognitive, has some essential feature, such as intentionality or normativity, and then argue that this feature is impossible except through participation in some supra-individual network of relations. [examples follow]
—Haugeland, J., 2000: Mind Embodied and Embedded, p. 1. Chapter 9 in Haugeland, J., 2000: Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind. Harvard University Press.
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