ABSTRACT
Much of the practice of contemporary psychology is underpinned by traditional answers to the question ‘What is the human mind?’ These answers tend to be Cartesian in spirit. ‘The mind’ is a hidden and closed arena (be it Cartesian substance or Husserlian subjectivity). There occur acts and states, processes and structures, imperfectly manifested in something wholly other, public behaviour. While the gross Cartesian thesis that the mind is a substance alien in all its qualities to the substance of the material world is rarely voiced, it is, as rarely explicitly, repudiated.
