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Author: W. Teed Rockwell
Publisher: Bradford Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780262681674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBelieving 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: D. M. Armstrong
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-03-05
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 0429975880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Simone Gozzano
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-08
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1107000149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that many mental states, including such conscious states as perceptual experiences and bodily sensations, are identical with brain states.
Author: Thomas Nagel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-11-22
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 0199919755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Paul Badham
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1976-06-18
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1349030139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin Hahn
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2020-12-22
Total Pages: 847
ISBN-13: 1135658374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Richard Swinburne
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 0198831498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat are humans? What makes us who we are? Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. In Are We Bodies or Souls? Richard Swinburne comes to the defence of the soul and presents new philosophical arguments that are supported by modern neuroscience. When scientific advances enable neuroscientists to transplant a part of brain into a new body, he reasons, no matter how much we can find out about their brain activity or conscious experiences we will never know whether the resulting person is the same as before or somebody entirely new. Swinburne thus argues that we are immaterial souls sustained in existence by our brains. Sensations, thoughts, and intentions are conscious events in our souls that cause events in our brains. While scientists might discover some of the laws of nature that determine conscious events and brain events, each person's soul is an individual thing and this is what ultimately makes us who we are.
Author: David Malet Armstrong
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carlos Muñoz-Suárez
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-07-10
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 331917374X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat are the grounds for the distinction between the mental and the physical? What is it the relation between ascribing mental states to an organism and understanding its behavior? Are animals and complex systems vehicles of inner evolutionary environments? Is there a difference between personal and sub-personal level processes in the brain? Answers to these and other questions were developed in Daniel Dennett’s first book, Content and Consciousness (1969), where he sketched a unified theoretical framework for views that are now considered foundational in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Content and Consciousness Revisited is devoted to reconsider the ideas and ideals introduced in Dennett’s seminal book, by covering its fundamental concepts, hypotheses and approaches and taking into account the findings and progress which have taken place during more than four decades. This book includes original and critical contributions about the relations between science and philosophy, the personal/sub-personal level distinction, intelligence, learning, intentionality, rationality, propositional attitudes, among other issues of scientific and philosophical interest. Each chapter embraces an updated approach to several disciplines, like cognitive science, cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind and cognitive psychiatry.
