Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction - Softcover

Graham, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631179569 ISBN 13: 9780631179566

Verlag: Blackwell Publishers, 1993

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This book is the most comprehensive introduction yet written to the philosophy of mind: one of philosophy's most active and popular areas. For the philosophy student such topics as mind/body, consciousness, and freedom of the will are examined. For student and general reader, it discusses 'afer-death experience', happiness, mental illness and the minds of animals and God.

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George Graham is the former editor of Behavior and Philosophy and serves on the Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy of the American Philosophical Association. Currently he is working on topics in the philosophy of psychopathology.

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Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction is a lively, engaging, student orientated introduction to one of philosophy's most active and popular areas. It is aimed at readers with little or no background in philosophy and covers a broad range of issues. Included are such standard topics as mind/body, personal identity, consciousness, intentionality, and freedom of will as well as other issues within the subject but rarely included in elementary introductions: 'after-death experience', minds of animals and of God, supervenience, folk psychology, mental illness, altruism, weakness of will, and happiness. The book is divided into nine chapters which can be read independently as distinguishable essays or in sequence. It begins with a crisp discussion of the nature of philosophy of mind and ends with a provocative application of the concept of consciousness to moral debate over animal liberation. It is supported by consideration of classical and contemporary figures ranging from St. Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, and Hume to Paul Churchland, Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, and John Searle.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0631179569
• ISBN 13: 9780631179566
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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