Meaning as the Mark of Mind: A Philosophical Case for the Irreducibility of Mind (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798258109156)

What must reality be like for meaning to be experienced at all?

In this philosophical work, Emanuel B. David argues that meaning is not reducible to signal, syntax, behavior, or bodily process. We do not merely register the world. We understand it. A word can bind, a promise can oblige, a truth can wound, and an act can appear as just or unjust. Such experiences, he contends, reveal more than complex processing. They reveal a subject for whom significance is present.

Beginning from phenomenological reflection and moving toward metaphysical consequence, Meaning as the Mark of Mind develops a case for the irreducibility of mind and for the insufficiency of purely reductive accounts of human understanding. Written as a concise philosophical tract, this work will appeal to readers interested in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, phenomenology, consciousness, intelligibility, and the limits of reductive explanation.