Teach Yourself Philosophy of Mind

Name: Teach Yourself Philosophy of Mind
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ISBN: 9780071429870

ISBN-10: 0071429875

ISBN-13: 9780071429870

Edition: 2004

Authors: Mel Thompson

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From Plato's cave to Dennett's emergent systems, Teach Yourself Philosophy of Mind explores more than two millennia of thought on the knottiest of all philosophical questions. What is the mind? Is it a function of language, a neuropsychological artifact, or a metaphysical essence? Will machines ever be conscious? Is free will just an illusion? Beginning with the pre-Socratics and moving up through the latest in cognitive science, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, this book explores major thinking on consciousness, memory, creativity, and other major concepts in the philosophy of mind.

Book details

List price: $11.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 1/23/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Introduction



From the Greeks to the sixteenth century


An immortal soul?


Making us what we are


Later Greek thought


The soul and its fate



Dualism and its alternatives


Dualism


Materialism and behaviourism


Idealism


The Ghost in the Machine


Supervenience


A new approach



Cognitive science


Psychology


Language and innate knowledge


Neuroscience


Evolutionary psychology


Functionalism


Artificial intelligence


The Chinese Room


Intentionality



Mind and the theory of knowledge


To know is to remember


Mind and certainty


We see it our way


Innateness


The phenomenological fallacy


Pragmatism and Gestalt



Personal identity and memory


Social and role identity


Memory


Worrying


Zombies



Knowledge of other minds


The structuralist approach


Brains


Ways of knowing


Are we alone?


Knowing me


Are you in my world?



Free will and action


Freedom and physical causality


The experience of freedom


Actions, intentions and beliefs



Consciousness


Conscious brains?


Disembodied consciousness


An existentialist view



The creative mind


Too narrow a view?


Religion and metaphysics


The creative arts


A Buddhist perspective


And sometimes I just sit...


Glossary


Taking it further


Further reading


Websites


Index