The phrase "account of mind" is not commonly used in written English and may be unclear in meaning.
It could be used in contexts discussing mental processes or perspectives, but it would require additional context for clarity.
Example: "In her essay, she provided an insightful account of mind, exploring how thoughts influence emotions."
Alternatives: "state of mind" or "mental account".
The Cartesian account of mind and body had many critics even in Descartes's own day.
Sehon defends his non-reductionist account of mind and agency in clear and nontechnical language.
A non-reductionist account of mind and agency claiming that common-sense psychological explanations are teleological and not causal.
Analytical behaviourism was felt to be unsatisfactory, however, chiefly because of its account of introspective reports as avowals (see above Types distinguished by their account of mind), which most philosophers found to be unconvincing.
There will be, I trust, at least a few unexpected ecologies represented here but in general the first twenty-two exhibits mean to undo the familiar account of mind over matter by concentrating precisely on its most familiar champions.
(Ryle himself was suspicious of mechanistic accounts of biology and psychology). Analytical behaviourism was felt to be unsatisfactory, however, chiefly because of its account of introspective reports as avowals (see above Types distinguished by their account of mind), which most philosophers found to be unconvincing.
Leibniz's account of mind-body causation was in terms of his famous doctrine of the preestablished harmony.
Secondary literature on Alexander's account of mind-body emergence include classic critiques from Broad (1921a,b), Calkins (1923) and Emmet (1950).
The government stopped sponsoring interrogation research in the 1970s, after Congressional investigators uncovered gruesome accounts of "mind control" experiments with drugs like LSD.
The story is so involving, with its graphic accounts of mind control and sensitive observations about victim psychology, that you hardly realize how skillfully Walters has worked her unifying theme into three intersecting plot lines.
In this section I will reconstruct her accounts of mind, ideas, knowledge, belief, and method.
