Philosophy of Mind

Jaegwon Kim (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

386 Seiten

2010 | 3rd edition
Westview Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8133-4458-4 (ISBN)

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This book explores a range of issues in the philosophy of mind, with the mind-body problem as the main focus. It serves as a stimulus to the reader to engage with the problems of the mind and try to come to terms with them, and examines Descartes's mind-body dualism.

Jaegwon Kim is William Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. He is the author of Supervenience and Mind Mind in a Physical World Physicalism, or Something Near Enough Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind and many important papers on the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of science.

Preface -- Introduction -- Mind as Immaterial Substance -- Mind and Behavior -- Mind as the Brain -- Mind as a Computing Machine -- Mind as a Causal System -- Mental Causation -- Mental Content -- What Is Consciousness? -- Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.12.2010
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	660 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
ISBN-10	0-8133-4458-1 / 0813344581
ISBN-13	978-0-8133-4458-4 / 9780813344584
Zustand	Neuware