Author: Jaegwon Kim
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: mind, causation, representation, mental, essay, physical, world, problem
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2000-01-31
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0262611538
ISBN-13: 9780262611534

This book, based on Jaegwon Kim’s 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher’s current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. Kim construes the mind-body problem as that of finding a place for the mind in a world that is fundamentally physical. Among other points, he redefines the roles of supervenience and emergence in the discussion of the mind-body problem. Arguing that various contemporary accounts of mental causation are inadequate, he offers his own part

Author: Sandra M. Dingli
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: thinking, world, critical, philosophy, new, mind, john, dowells, ashgate
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2005-10-31
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0754651762
ISBN-13: 9780754651765

John McDowell’s "Mind and World" has, since its publication in 1994, become a seminal text, putting forward many new ideas on the manner in which concepts mediate the relation between minds and the world. Yet McDowell’s ideas are not easy to comprehend. In this book Sandra Dingli both elaborates and simplifies McDowell’s ideas in order to give greater clarity to them and to assist in the understanding and appreciation of his work. Dingli selects five particular contemporary philosophical topics which McDowell deals with and investigates in detail the implications of particula

Author: Henrik Lagerlund
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: mind, enlightenment, studies, philosophy, medical, history, problem, essays, internal, senses, forming, avicenna
Number of Pages: 346
Published: 2007-09-20
List price: $259.00
ISBN-10: 1402060831
ISBN-13: 9781402060830

Forming the Mind deals with the internal senses, the mind/body problem and other problems associated with the concept of mind as it developed from Avicenna to the medical Enlightenment. The book collects essays from some of the foremost scholars in a relatively new and very promising field of research. It stresses how important and fruitful it is to see the time period between 1100 and 1700 as one continuous tradition, and brings together scholars working on the same issues in the Arabic, Jewish and Western philosophical traditions. In this respect, this collection opens up several new and int

Author: John McDowell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: world, mind
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1996-09-01
List price: $25.50
ISBN-10: 0674576101
ISBN-13: 9780674576100

Modern Philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World, based on the 1991 John Locke Lectures, one of the most distinguished philosophers writing today offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure. In doing so, he delivers the most complete and ambitious statement to date of his own views, a statement that no one concerned with the future of philosophy can afford to ignore. John McDowell amply illustrates a major problem of modern philosophy--the insidious persistence of dualism--in his discussion of empiri

Author: Andrey Vyshedskiy Ph.D.
Publisher: MobileReference
Keywords: human, mind, basis, conscious, experience, neurological, uniqueness, three, theories, origin, evolution
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-12-20
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1607787776
ISBN-13: 9781607787778

Some of the most time-honored questions in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience center on the uniqueness of the human mind. How do we think? What makes us so different from all the other animals on planet Earth? What was the process that created the human mind? Is this process unique or can it be repeated on other planets? The book "On the Origin of the Human Mind" attempts to provide an answer to these questions. It is organized into three chapters: Chapter I "Uniqueness of the Human Mind" introduces the reader to recent research into animal behavior, communication,

Author: E.J Squires
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: world, physical, mind, conscious
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: $101.00
ISBN-10: 0750300450
ISBN-13: 9780750300452

We have seen remarkable progress in our detailed understanding of the physical world, from the smallest constituents of atoms to the remotest distances seen by telescopes. However, we have yet to explore the phenomenon of consciousness. Can physical things be conscious or is consciousness something else, forever outside the range of physics? And how does consciousness interact with physical things? A lively account of quantum theory and its puzzles, Conscious Mind in the Physical World examines two developments in particular that have altered the context of discussions about consciousness. One

Author: Gregory McCulloch
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: philosophy, problems, world, mind
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1995-06-13
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 0415093309
ISBN-13: 9780415093309

Since Descartes, the mind has been thought to be ``in the head,’’ separable from the world and even from the body it inhabits. In The Mind and its World, Gregory McCulloch considers the latest debates in philosophy and cognitive science about whether the thinking subject actually requires an environment in order to be able to think. McCulloch explores the mind/body duality from the Enlightenment to the 20th century.