Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
The Mind and its Place in Nature
Broad's 1925 Tarner Lectures — major philosophy-of-mind work; emergent materialism and the seventeen possible theories
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | The Mind and its Place in Nature (Mid) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
The Mind and its Place in Nature
The 1923 lectures and 1925 book moment.
Space
The Mind and its Place in Nature
The Cambridge analytic-philosophical setting.
Matter
The Mind and its Place in Nature
The embodied mind-body relation as proper-philosophical subject.
Observer
The Mind and its Place in Nature
Broad as proper analytic-philosophical investigator.
Energy
The Mind and its Place in Nature
The intellectual energies of early-analytic philosophy of mind.
Information
The Mind and its Place in Nature
The systematic-philosophical content.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The Mind and its Place in Nature has been variously assessed — defenders see foundational analytic philosophy-of-mind achievement, contemporary materialist critics maintain rival reductionist positions; the emergentist framework has had a recent revival.