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Author: Cynthia Macdonald Publisher: ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 280
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Believing that mind-body theories will offer a unified account of mind in its relation to body, Cynthia Macdonald traces the complex history of this theory and focuses on the different arguments of J.J.C. Smart and David Lewis among others.
Author: W. Teed Rockwell Publisher: Bradford Books ISBN: 9780262681674 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 231
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A rejection of both dualism and the mind-brain identity theory, arguing that the mind is best understood as a "behavioral field" that fluctuates within the brain/body/world nexus.
Author: Cynthia Macdonald Publisher: ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 280
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Believing that mind-body theories will offer a unified account of mind in its relation to body, Cynthia Macdonald traces the complex history of this theory and focuses on the different arguments of J.J.C. Smart and David Lewis among others.
Author: Simone Gozzano Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107000149 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 305
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This book argues that many mental states, including such conscious states as perceptual experiences and bodily sensations, are identical with brain states.
Author: D. M. Armstrong Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429975880 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 132
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The relation of mind to body has been argued about by philosophers for centuries. The Mind-Body Problem: An Opinionated Introduction presents the problem as a debate between materialists about the mind and their opponents. After examining the views of Descartes, Hume, and Thomas Huxley the debate is traced through the twentieth century to present day. The emphasis is always on the arguments used and the way one position develops from another. By the end of the book the reader is afforded both a grasp of the state of the controversy and how we got there.
Author: Thomas Nagel Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199919755 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 141
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The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic. In spite of the great achievements of the physical sciences, reductive materialism is a world view ripe for displacement. Nagel shows that to recognize its limits is the first step in looking for alternatives, or at least in being open to their possibility.
Author: Martin Hahn Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 1135658374 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 847
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This book presents the complete collection of peer-reviewed presentations at the 1999 Cognitive Science Society meeting, including papers, poster abstracts, and descriptions of conference symposia. For students and researchers in all areas of cognitive science.
Author: Torin Alter Publisher: OUP USA ISBN: 9780199739240 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 0
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Ideal for courses in consciousness and the philosophy of mind, Consciousness and The Mind-Body Problem: A Reader presents thirty-three classic and contemporary readings, organized into five sections that cover the major issues in this debate: the challenge for physicalism, physicalist responses, alternative responses, the significance of ignorance, and mental causation. Edited by Torin Alter and Robert J. Howell, the volume features work from such leading figures as Karen Bennett, Ned Block, David J. Chalmers, Frank Jackson, Colin McGinn, David Papineau, and many others.
Author: Irving Krakow Publisher: ISBN: 9780761822080 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 0
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Krakow is a property dualist, holding that the human brain is a physical object that displays both mental and physical properties, and that the mental cannot be reduced to the physical. He declares identity theory false, and seeks to purge the term identity from the vocabulary of researchers working on the mind-body problem. He does not index his treatise. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author: Cynthia Macdonald Publisher: ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 292
Book Description
Believing that mind-body theories will offer a unified account of mind in its relation to body, Cynthia Macdonald traces the complex history of this theory and focuses on the different arguments of J.J.C. Smart and David Lewis among others.
Author: Cynthia Macdonald
Author: W. Teed Rockwell
Author: Cynthia Macdonald
Author: Simone Gozzano
Author: D. M. Armstrong
Author: Thomas Nagel
Author: Martin Hahn
Author: David Malet Armstrong
Author: Torin Alter
Author: Irving Krakow
Author: Cynthia Macdonald