Contemporary Mind

Author : J. W. N. Sullivan
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528784952
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Mind written by J. W. N. Sullivan and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Contemporary Mind - Some Modern Answers” is a fantastic collection of essays by English science writer John W. Sullivan. They deal with a range of subjects, ranging from mysticism and immortality to the relationship between science and art. John William Navin Sullivan (1886 – 1937) was a literary journalist and popular science writer most famous for his study of Beethoven. He is also responsible for having written some of the earliest non-technical accounts of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, and he was acquainted with many important writers in London in the 1920s, including John Middleton Murry, Aldous Huxley, Wyndham Lewis, Aleister Crowley and T. S. Eliot. Other notable works by this author include “Aspects of Science” (1923), “Aspects of Science: Second Series” (1926), and An Outline of Modern Knowledge (1931). Contents include: “The Balanced Life”, “The Problem of Suffering”, “The Necessity of Mysticism”, “Human Immortality”, “A Dissertation on Beethoven”, “The Scientific Outlook”, “A Dissertation on Maxwell”, “New Principles”, “A Dissertation on Newton”, “Science and Art”, “Mathematics and Culture”, “Sir Josiah Stamp”, “Mr. Aldous Huxley”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.

Author : Brian P. McLaughlin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470766328
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind written by Brian P. McLaughlin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Jacquelynn Baas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520243460
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art written by Jacquelynn Baas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eminently readable and extremely meaningful. The contributors tackle essential questions about the relationship of art and life. The book is also very timely, offering a way to approach Buddhism through unexpected channels."--Lynn Gumpert, Director, Grey Art Gallery, New York University

Author : David J. Chalmers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190640859
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Mind written by David J. Chalmers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Heil
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134455461
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Mind written by John Heil and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and leading textbook has been revised and reworked building on the themes of the first edition. As before it covers all aspects of the nature of mind, and is ideal for anyone coming to philosophy of mind for the first time.

Author : Paul M. Churchland
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262530743
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matter and Consciousness written by Paul M. Churchland and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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"

Author : Georges Rey
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631190691
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Philosophy of Mind written by Georges Rey and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1997-01-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jack S. Crumley
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problems in Mind written by Jack S. Crumley and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2000 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an anthology of 51 readings, some of them excerpts, introducing four central issues animating modern philosophy of mind: mind/body, mental content, mental causation, and consciousness.

Author : S. Schroeder
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349661374
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind written by S. Schroeder and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each essay in this volume discusses some prevalent views in contemporary philosophy of mind by confronting them with Wittgensteinian ideas. Part One addresses the views of Quine and Dennett, including functionalism, eliminative materialism and the current debate about consciousness. Part Two assembles essays that focus each on one particular psychological concept, namely thinking, imagining, sensation, knowledge and reason.

Author : Gean Moreno
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788730690
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Mind But Not From There written by Gean Moreno and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists and critics explore the concept of Real Abstraction to help understand contemporary cultural production In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers how the Marxian concept of Real Abstraction--originally developed by Alfred Sohn Rethel, and recently updated by Alberto Toscano--might help to define the economic, social, political, and cultural complexities of our contemporary moment. In doing so, this volume brings together noted contemporary artists, literary critics, curators, historians, and social theorists who connect the concept of Real Abstraction with contemporary cultural production. Theoretical and artistic contributions from Benjamin Noys, Paul Chan, Joao Enxuto and Erica Love, Marina Vishmidt, Sven Lütticken, and many others help to map out the relationship between political economy and artistic production in the realm of contemporary, globalized cultural exchange. This anthology places economic and social analyses alongside creative projects and visual essays to consider the many angles of contemporary art, and how inquiry into the the production of abstraction through material and social processes can be used to better understand, and hopefully change, the conditions under which art is made, seen, and circulated today. Published in collaboration with [NAME] publications.