ABSTRACT
Articulating reflections and conversations by its authors over the course of several years, this book is an attempt to elucidate the phenomenon of mind in the broadest sense of the word. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book moves beyond thinkers in so far as it rejects the residues of metaphysical thinking that they all retain, to establish a new approach to the study of consciousness and world that proceeds from a position of ontological nihilism. Phenomenology of mind constructs its thematizations of experience having taken into consideration, or the "inpsychated", to use a Nietzschean expression, as many as possible of the sensibilities and insights developed by an array of specialized disciplines in the human and social sciences, but omits their ontological presuppositions and abjures their system-building aims.
