Modern Philosophy Of Mind

Author : Rebecca Copenhaver
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429019475
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Mind in the Early Modern and Modern Ages written by Rebecca Copenhaver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early modern period is arguably the most pivotal of all in the study of the mind, teeming with a variety of conceptions of mind. Some of these posed serious questions for assumptions about the nature of the mind, many of which still depended on notions of the soul and God. It is an era that witnessed the emergence of theories and arguments that continue to animate the study of philosophy of mind, such as dualism, vitalism, materialism, and idealism. Covering pivotal figures in philosophy such as Descartes, Hobbes, Kant, Leibniz, Cavendish, and Spinoza, Philosophy of Mind in the Early Modern and Modern Ages provides an outstanding survey of philosophy of mind of the period. Following an introduction by Rebecca Copenhaver, sixteen specially commissioned chapters by an international team of contributors discuss key topics, thinkers, and debates, including: Hobbes, Descartes’ philosophy of mind and its early critics, consciousness, the later Cartesians, Malebranche, Cavendish, Locke, Spinoza, Descartes and Leibniz, perception and sensation, desires, mental substance and mental activity, Hume, and Kant. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind, enlightenment philosophy, and the history of philosophy, Philosophy of Mind in the Early Modern and Modern Ages is also a valuable resource for those in related disciplines such as religion, history of psychology, and history of science.

Author : Janice Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317492412
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Minds of the Moderns written by Janice Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive examination of the ideas of the early modern philosophers on the nature of mind. Taking Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume in turn, Janice Thomas presents an authoritative and critical assessment of each of these canonical thinkers' views of the notion of mind. The book examines each philosopher's position on five key topics: the metaphysical character of minds and mental states; the nature and scope of introspection and self-knowledge; the nature of consciousness; the problem of mental causation and the nature of representation and intentionality. The exposition and examination of their positions is informed by present-day debates in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of psychology so that students get a clear sense of the importance of these philosophers' ideas, many of which continue to define our current notions of the mental.Again and again, philosophers and students alike come back to the great early modern rationalist and empiricist philosophers for instruction and inspiration. Their views on the philosophy of mind are no exception and as Janice Thomas shows they have much to offer contemporary debates. The book is suitable for undergraduate courses in the philosophy of mind and the many new courses in philosophy of psychology.

Author : Amy Kind
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429019386
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries written by Amy Kind and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the philosophical study of mind has always required philosophers to attend to the scientific developments of their day, from the twentieth century onwards it has been especially influenced and informed by psychology, neuroscience, and computer science. Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries provides an outstanding survey of the most prominent themes in twentieth-century and contemporary philosophy of mind. It also looks to the future, offering cautious predictions about developments in the field in the years to come. Following an introduction by Amy Kind, twelve specially commissioned chapters by an international team of contributors discuss key topics, thinkers, and debates, including: the phenomenological tradition, the mind–body problem, theories of consciousness, theories of perception, theories of personal identity, mental causation, intentionality, Wittgenstein and his legacy, cognitive science, and future directions for philosophy of mind. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology, Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries is also a valuable resource for those in related disciplines such as psychology and cognitive science.

Author : William Lyons
Publisher : Everymans Library
ISBN 13 : 9780460875585
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Philosophy of Mind written by William Lyons and published by Everymans Library. This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With wide format pages to give generous margins for notes, the editor presents the latest philosophy of mind scholarship in an introduction, and also includes an annotated bibliography, selected criticism and chronology of the authors' lives and times.

Author : Jon Miller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 904812381X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Topics in Early Modern Philosophy of Mind written by Jon Miller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early modern era (c. 1600-1800), philosophers formulated a number of new questions, methods of investigation, and theories regarding the nature of the mind. The result of their efforts has been described as “the original cognitive revolution”. Topics in Early Modern Philosophy of Mind provides a comprehensive snapshot of this exciting period in the history of thinking about the mind, presenting studies of a wide array of philosophers and topics. Written by some of today’s foremost authorities on early modern philosophy, the ten chapters address issues ranging from those that have long captivated philosophers and psychologists as well as those that have been underexplored. Likewise, the papers engage figures from the history of ideas who are well-known today (Descartes, Hume, Kant) as well as those who have been comparatively neglected by contemporary scholarship (Desgabets, Boyle, Collins). This volume will become an essential reference work that graduate students and professionals in the fields of philosophy of mind, the history of philosophy, and the history of psychology will want to own.

Author : Manuel Curado
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527500772
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Mind written by Manuel Curado and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human mind is one of the most extraordinary mysteries of the contemporary sciences and philosophy. We know for sure that we have one, and that we have feelings and conscious experience. But why is that? This anthology addresses contemporary issues in the field of study that is the philosophy of mind. It is divided into five main parts: i) the concept of Self in the contemporary philosophy of mind; ii) sensory experience: odors, vision and colors; iii) Artificial Intelligence: the future, the ethics and the costs; iv) the relationship between neuroscience and philosophy; and, finally, v) the influences and history of the philosophy of mind. This book will be useful for specialists of the field, but also for others who are interested in some of the more updated sciences of the mind.

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 : Jaegwon Kim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429974485
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Mind written by Jaegwon Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a range of issues in the philosophy of mind, with the mind-body problem as the main focus. It serves as a stimulus to the reader to engage with the problems of the mind and try to come to terms with them, and examines Descartes's mind-body dualism.

Author : E. Jonathan Lowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521654289
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind written by E. Jonathan Lowe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the philosophy of mind, suitable for readers with a basic grounding in philosophy.

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.