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Books

The Nature of Mind

A review by Tim Chappell.

It’s been a busy thirty years in the Philosophy of Mind – as is immediately apparent when you pick up Rosenthal’s book. If you have back problems, be careful how you do this. This is a volume over 650 pages long when prefaces, etc., have been counted, and, according to the Wolfson College Lodge scales, it weighs in at only one gramme short of a kilo. Here is, as some bloodshot aristocrat said of Decline and Fall (Gibbon, not Waugh), “another great, fat, damned thick book”: the kind of volume that induces guilt complexes while in your In Tray (experto crede) and half holidays once in your Out Tray.

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