Philosophy as Psychology and Psychology as Philosophy

It is my contention that the table of intentionality (rationality, mind, thought, language, personality etc.) that features prominently here describes more or less accurately, or at least serve s as an heuristic for, how we think and behave, and so it encompasses not merely philosophy and psychology, but everything else (history, literature, mathematics, politics etc.). Note especially that intentionality and rationality as I (along with Searle, Wittgenstein and others) view it, includes both conscious deliberative linguistic System 2 and unconscious automated prelinguistic System 1 actions or reflexes. Language is programmed in our genes and is involved in nearly all our social behavior. Philosophy in the str ict sense (i.e., academic philosophy), is as Wittgenstein showed us, the study of the way language is used (language games) and I regard it as the descriptive psychology of higher order thought (i.e., pretty much everything involving language which is ofte n called System 2 or slow thinking). However, as I hope I have shown in my writings over the last decade, nonlinguistic behavior or System 1 or fast thinking is also described with language and this leads to endless confusion which I have tried to clarify here and which is summarized in the tables that I present.

• | Author: Michael Richard Starks
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Apr 30, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 00666 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: NA
• | ISBN-13: 9798311068062