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Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind

Author : Brian P. McLaughlin

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 408 pages

File Size : 21,69 MB

Release : 2009-02-09

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0470766328

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Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind showcases the leading contributors to the field, debating the major questions in philosophy of mind today. Comprises 20 newly commissioned essays on hotly debated issues in the philosophy of mind Written by a cast of leading experts in their fields, essays take opposing views on 10 central contemporary debates A thorough introduction provides a comprehensive background to the issues explored Organized into three sections which explore the ontology of the mental, nature of the mental content, and the nature of consciousness



Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science

Author : Robert J. Stainton

Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell

Page : 360 pages

File Size : 14,67 MB

Release : 2006-05-08

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 9781405113045

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This volume introduces central issues in cognitive science by means of debates on key questions. The debates are written by renowned experts in the field. The debates cover the middle ground as well as the extremes Addresses topics such as the amount of innate knowledge, bounded rationality and the role of perception in action. Provides valuable overview of the field in a clear and easily comprehensible form.



Current Controversies in Philosophy of Mind

Author : Uriah Kriegel

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 25,80 MB

Release : 2013-10-01

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1136299955

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Philosophy of mind is one of the most dynamic fields in philosophy, and one that invites debate around several key questions. There currently exist annotated tomes of primary sources, and a handful of single-authored introductions to the field, but there is no book that captures philosophy of mind’s recent dynamic exchanges for a student audience. By bringing compiling ten newly commissioned pieces in which leading philosophers square off on five central, related debates currently engaging the field, editor Uriah Kriegel has provided such a publication.The five debates include: Mind and Body: The Prospects for Russellian Monism Mind in Body: The Scope and Nature of Embodied Cognition Consciousness: Representationalism and the Phenomenology of Moods Mental Representation: The Project of Naturalization The Nature of Mind: The Importance of Consciousness. Preliminary descriptions of each chapter, annotated bibliographies for each controversy, and a supplemental guide to further controversies in philosophy of mind (with bibliographies) help provide clearer and richer views of active controversies for all readers.



Philosophy of Mind

Author : David J. Chalmers

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 928 pages

File Size : 36,11 MB

Release : 2021-01-04

Category : Philosophy of mind

ISBN : 9780190640859

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Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings is a grand tour of writings on the perplexing questions about the nature of the mind. The most comprehensive and best-selling collection of its kind, the book includes selections that range from the classical contributions of Descartes to the leading edge of contemporary debates. Extensive sections cover foundational issues, the nature of consciousness, and the nature of mental content. Three of the selections are published for the first time, while many other articles have been revised especially for this volume. Each section opens with an introduction by the editor.



Contemporary Issues in the Philosophy of Mind

Author : Anthony O'Hear

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 415 pages

File Size : 20,96 MB

Release : 1998-11-13

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0521639271

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This book presents key issues in the philosophy of mind, examined by leading figures in the field.



Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science

Author : Christopher Hitchcock

Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell

Page : 364 pages

File Size : 10,43 MB

Release : 2004-01-09

Category : Science

ISBN : 9781405101516

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Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science contains sixteen original essays by leading authors in the philosophy of science, each one defending the affirmative or negative answer to one of eight specific questions, including: Are there laws of social science? Are causes physically connected to their effects? Is the mind a system of modules shaped by natural selection? Brings together fresh debates on eight of the most controversial issues in the philosophy of science. Questions addressed include: “Are there laws of social science?”; “Are causes physically connected to their effects?”; “Is the mind a system of modules shaped by natural selection?” Each question is treated by a pair of opposing essays written by eminent scholars, and especially commissioned for the volume. Lively debate format sharply defines the issues, and paves the way for further discussion. Will serve as an accessible introduction to the major topics in contemporary philosophy of science, whilst also capturing the imagination of professional philosophers.



Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion

Author : Michael L. Peterson

Publisher : Blackwell Publishers

Page : 353 pages

File Size : 24,80 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Christianity

ISBN : 9786610197460

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Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion features newly commissioned debates on some of the most controversial issues in the field. For example: Is evil evidence against belief in God? Does science discredit religion? Is God's existence the best explanation of the universe? Is eternal damnation compatible with the Christian concept of God? Is morality based on God's commands?This first title in Blackwell's Contemporary Debates in Philosophy series presents important philosophical issues in a stimulating and engaging manner. Twelve central questions are posed, with each question addressed by a pair of opposing essays. The debates range from vigorous disagreements between theists and their critics to arguments between theists of different philosophical and theological persuasions. Both students and scholars in the philosophy of religion will readily sense the value of rigorous debate for sharply defining the issues and paving the way for further progress.



Matter and Consciousness

Author : Paul M. Churchland

Publisher : MIT Press

Page : 204 pages

File Size : 43,86 MB

Release : 1988

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 9780262530743

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In "Matter and Consciousness," Paul Churchland clearly presents the advantages and disadvantages of such difficult issues in philosophy of mind as behaviorism, reductive materialism, functionalism, and eliminative materialism. This new edition incorporates the striking developments that have taken place in neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence and notes their expanding relevance to philosophical issues. Churchland organizes and clarifies the new theoretical and experimental results of the natural sciences for a wider philosophical audience, observing that this research bears directly on questions concerning the basic elements of cognitive activity and their implementation in real physical systems. (How is it, he asks, that living creatures perform some cognitive tasks so swiftly and easily, where computers do them only badly or not at all?) Most significant for philosophy, Churchland asserts, is the support these results tend to give to the reductive and the eliminative versions of materialism. "A Bradford Book"



Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology

Author : Francisco J. Ayala

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 440 pages

File Size : 32,87 MB

Release : 2009-11-19

Category : Science

ISBN : 9781444314939

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This collection of specially commissioned essays puts top scholarshead to head to debate the central issues in the lively and fastgrowing field of philosophy of biology Brings together original essays on ten of the most hotlydebated questions in philosophy of biology Lively head-to-head debate format sharply defines the issuesand paves the way for further discussion Includes coverage of the new and vital area of evolutionarydevelopmental biology, as well as the concept of a unified species,the role of genes in selection, the differences between micro- andmacro-evolution, and much more Each section features an introduction to the topic as well assuggestions for further reading Offers an accessible overview of this fast-growing and dynamicfield, whilst also capturing the imagination of professionalphilosophers and biologists



Contemporary Philosophy of Mind

Author : Georges Rey

Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell

Page : 384 pages

File Size : 18,24 MB

Release : 1997-01-23

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 9780631190691

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This volume is an introduction to contemporary debates in the philosophy of mind. In particular, the author focuses on the controversial "eliminativist" and "instrumentalist" attacks - from philosophers such as of Quine, Dennett, and the Churchlands - on our ordinary concept of mind. In so doing, Rey offers an explication and defense of "mental realism", and shows how Fodor's representational theory of mind affords a compelling account of much of our ordinary mental talk of beliefs, hopes, and desires.