Publisher's Synopsis
The subject of this text is the work of Scottish-born Sir William Mitchell, the Hughes Professor of Philosophy and Vice Chancellor of the University of Adelaide, and the first major philosopher who lived in South Australia. Mitchell worked at Adelaide University during the years 1895-1940 and died in 1962. This study argues that Mitchell's work is surprisingly relevant to current concerns among cognitive scientists and philosophers of mind. He wrote on issues that are only today being discussed by philosophers and psychologists under the auspices of "cognitive science". His major work "Structure and Growth of the Mind" is a major treatise on philosophical psychology. Most worthy of note, Mitchell seems to have anticipated the claims of the "new mysterians" and their emphasis on subjective experience. He also seemed to have prefigured themes associated with perceptual plasticity, developmental accounts of modularity and connectionism.
