Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (Bradford Books) - Softcover

Churchland, Paul M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262530740 ISBN 13: 9780262530743

Verlag: MIT Press, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland clearly presents theadvantages and disadvantages of such difficult issues in philosophy of mind as behaviorism,reductive materialism, functionalism, and eliminative materialism. This new edition incorporates thestriking developments that have taken place in neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificialintelligence and notes their expanding relevance to philosophicalissues.

Churchland organizes and clarifies the new theoretical and experimentalresults of the natural sciences for a wider philosophical audience, observing that this researchbears directly on questions concerning the basic elements of cognitive activity and theirimplementation in real physical systems. (How is it, he asks, that living creatures perform somecognitive tasks so swiftly and easily, where computers do them only badly or not at all?) Mostsignificant for philosophy, Churchland asserts, is the support these results tend to give to thereductive and the eliminative versions of materialism.

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Paul M. Churchland is Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Cognitive Science Faculty at the University of California at San Diego.

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• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262530740
• ISBN 13: 9780262530743
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 198
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