Contributions

  • Jackson, Frank, 1943- - Contributor

Publication

2007 - Blackwell Pub., Malden, MA, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

81,250 words, Guess

Page Count

325 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2006014906
  • Goodreads232820
  • LibraryThing511950

Classifications

  • DDC128/.2
  • LCCBD418.3 .B72 2007

Description

The philosophy of mind and cognition has been transformed by recent advances in what is loosely called cognitive science. This book is a thoroughly up-to-date introduction to and account of that transformation, in which the many strands in contemporary cognitive science are brought together into a coherent philosophical picture of the mind. The book begins with discussions of the pre-history of contemporary philosophy of mind - dualism, behaviourism, and early versions of the identity theory of mind - and moves through discussions of functionalism in its many varieties, consciousness and qualia, instrumentalism and the autonomy of psychology, to topics such as eliminative materialism, individualism and the problems of content and representation. The synoptic nature of the discussion makes it ideal as the foundation of an undergraduate or graduate course in the philosophy of mind.

Subjects

Topics

128/.2COGNITIONFilosofiaPhilosophyMind & BodyWl103.5 braMetaphysics

Other Editions

  • The philosophy of mind and cognitionBlackwell Pub.2007-01-01

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