Matter and Consciousness, Third Edition

Name: Matter and Consciousness, Third Edition
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ISBN: 9780262519588

ISBN-10: 0262519585

ISBN-13: 9780262519588

Edition: 3rd 2013

Authors: Paul M. Churchland

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In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland presents a conciseand contemporary overview of the philosophical issues surrounding the mind and explains the maintheories and philosophical positions that have been proposed to solve them. Making the case for therelevance of theoretical and experimental results in neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificialintelligence for the philosophy of mind, Churchland reviews current developments in the cognitivesciences and offers a clear and accessible account of the connections to philosophy ofmind.For this third edition, the text has been updated and revised throughout.The changes range from references to the iPhone's "Siri" to expanded discussions…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/16/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.43" wide x 7.95" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Paul M. Churchland is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul, Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (both published by the MIT Press), and other books.



Preface to the 2013 Edition


Preface to the 1988 Edition


Preface to the 1984 Edition



What Is This Book About?



The Ontological Problem (the Mind-Body Problem)



Dualism



Philosophical Behaviorism



Reductive Materialism (the Identity Theory)



Functionalism



Eliminative Materialism



The Semantical Problem



Definition by Inner Ostension



Philosophical Behaviorism



The Theoretical Network Thesis and Folk Psychology



Intentionality and the Propositional Attitudes



The Epistemological Problem



The Problem of Other Minds



The Problem of Self-Consciousness



The Methodological Problem



Idealism and Phenomenology



Methodological Behaviorism



The Cognitive/Computational Approach



Methodological Materialism



Artificial Intelligence



Computers: Some Elementary Concepts



Programming Intelligence: The Piecemeal Approach



Neuroscience



Neuroanatomy: The Evolutionary Background



Neurophysiology and Neural Organization



Neuropsychology



Cognitive Neurobiology



Al Again: Computer Models of Parallel Distributed Processing



Expanding Our Perspective



The Distribution of Intelligence in the Universe



The Expansion of Introspective Consciousness


Index