Elements of Mind An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind

Name: Elements of Mind An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
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ISBN: 9780192892973

ISBN-10: 0192892975

ISBN-13: 9780192892973

Edition: 2001

Authors: Tim Crane

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This accessible and lively introduction considers the main problems and debates in contemporary philosophy of mind. The central theme of the book is that intentionality, or the mind's direction upon its objects - sometimes described as the mind's power to represent or be 'about' things - is the essential feature of all mental phenomena. Crane engages in a subsidiary theme, the mind-body problem, asking to what extent a physicalist reductive account of mental phenomena is possible, or even necessary. Proposing an original and unified theory of all the phenomena of mind, Crane opposes those currently popular conceptions of the mind which divide mental phenomena into two very different kinds,…

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List price: $129.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/25/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Tim Crane is Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.



Introduction: What is the philosophy of mind?



Mind



Body



Consciousness



Thought



Perception


Bibliography


Index