Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind (eBook)

Jonathan Cohen, Brian P. McLaughlin (Herausgeber)

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2023 | 2. Auflage
640 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-119-63703-5 (ISBN)

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A timely collection of debates concerning the major themes and topics in philosophy of mind, fully updated with new topics covering the latest developments in the field

Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind provides a lively and engaging introduction to the conceptual background, ongoing debates, and contentious issues in the field today. Original essays by more than 30 of the discipline's most influential thinkers offer opposing perspectives on a series of contested questions regarding mental content, physicalism, the place of consciousness in the physical world, and the nature of perception and mental capacities.

Written to appeal to non-specialists and professional philosophers alike, the second edition of Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind features five entirely new debates on the relation between perception and cognition, whether pain is a natural kind, whether perception is best understood through representational content or direct contact with the world, whether we need imagination that goes beyond imagery and supposition, and whether perceptual contents are general, particular, or a hybrid.

• Presents 15 sets of specially commissioned essays with opposing viewpoints on central topics in philosophy of mind
• Offers head-to-head debates on central topics such as consciousness, intentionality, normativity, mental causation, materialism, and perception
• Provides a dynamic view of contemporary thinking about fundamental and controversial issues
• Includes a thorough introduction providing a comprehensive background to the issues explored in each debate

Part of Wiley-Blackwell's acclaimed Contemporary Debates in Philosophy series, Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind, Second Edition is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students, academics, professional philosophers, and sophisticated general readers with an interest in the subject.

BRIAN P. MCLAUGHLIN is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He has published numerous papers in fields including philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical logic. He co-authored (with Vann McGee) Terrestrial Logic: Formal Semantics Brought Down to Earth (forthcoming, Oxford).

JONATHAN COHEN is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He has published widely in philosophy of perception, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and aesthetics. He is the author of The Red and the Real: An Essay on Color Ontology.

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Louise Antony is Professor Emerita at the University of Massachusetts, and Regular Visiting Professor at Rutgers University. In her research she attempts to develop naturalistic accounts of meaning, knowledge, and agency that square with our scientific understanding of the mind. She is the author of numerous articles in the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and feminist theory, and has co‐edited two collections of original essays, Chomsky and His Critics (with Norbert Hornstein) and A Mind of One’s Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity (with Charlotte Witt).

Ned Block is Silver Professor at New York University in the Department of Philosophy with secondary appointments in psychology and the Center for Neural Science. He works in philosophy of mind and cognitive science, with a focus on philosophy of perception.

David Braddon‐Mitchell is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He has published papers in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics in Noûs, the Journal of Philosophy, Mind, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Erkenntnis, Synthese, and various others. He is author, with Frank Jackson, of The Philosophy of Mind and Cognition.

Anthony Brueckner (1953–2014) taught at Yale and University of California, Santa Barbara. He wrote influential papers on topics in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. He also wrote two books: Essays on Skepticism (Oxford, 2010) and Debating Self Knowledge (Cambridge, 2012, co‐authored with Gary Ebbs).

Paul M. Churchland is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind, Matter and Consciousness, and Neurophilosophy at Work. His research lies at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind.

Jonathan Cohen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He has published widely in philosophy of perception, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and aesthetics. He is the author of The Red and the Real: An Essay on Color Ontology (OUP 2009), and the coeditor of Color Ontology and Color Science (with Mohan Matthen, MIT, 2010).

Jennifer Corns is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. Her published research focuses on pain, affect, and suffering. She is interested in how everyday thinking is appropriately employed for specialised scientific and ethical theorising.

Jerry Fodor (1935–2017) held appointments at MIT, CUNY Graduate Center, and Rutgers. He published widely and influentially in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and cognitive science. Among his most important works are The Language of Thought (1975), The Modularity of Mind (1983), Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of Mind (1987), Holism: A Shopper’s Guide (1992, with Ernie Lepore), Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong (1998), and LOT 2: The Language of Thought Revisited (2008).

Matthew Fulkerson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He has written on haptic touch, pain, perceptual emotion and motivation, and bodily awareness.

Craig French is an Associate Professor in the philosophy department at the University of Nottingham. He is author of numerous articles focusing on the metaphysics and epistemology of perception.

E. J. Green is Associate Professor of Philosophy at MIT. He has published articles in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of perception. Recent papers focus on the perception of spatial properties, multimodal perception, and the border between perception and cognition.

Richard Kimberly Heck (formerly Richard G. Heck, Jr.) is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. They have written about philosophy of language, logic, mathematics, and mind, and the work of Gottlob Frege. Currently, they are working on issues related to gender and sexuality.

Christopher S. Hill is Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. He is the author of five books and a number of articles on topics in epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.

Frank Jackson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University.

Jaegwon Kim (1934–2019) taught at Swarthmore College, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, Notre Dame University, the University of Michigan, and Brown University where he was William Perry Faunce Professor Philosophy until his retirement. One of the world’s leading philosophers of mind and metaphysics, Kim wrote many seminal articles and authored five books: Supervenience and Mind (Cambridge, 1993), Mind in a Physical World (MIT, 1998), Physicalism, or Something Near Enough (Princeton, 2005), Philosophy of Mind (Westview, 2006), and Essays on Metaphysics and Mind (Oxford, 2010).

Amy Kind is Russell K. Pitzer of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College. Though her philosophical work centers on issues relating to imagination, she has authored numerous articles across a range of topics in philosophy of mind. She has also written two introductory textbooks, Persons and Personal Identity (Polity) and Philosophy of Mind: The Basics (Routledge).

Barry Loewer is Distinguished Professor at Rutgers, Director of the Rutgers Center for Philosophy and the Sciences. He is the author of many articles in the philosophy of physics, the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and logic. He is the author of a forthcoming book, What Breathes Fire into the Equations, on the metaphysics of laws, causation, and chance.

Heather Logue is Associate Professor at the University of Leeds. Her research interests lie mostly in philosophy of mind (focusing on metaphysical, epistemological, and methodological questions related to perception) and feminist philosophy (particularly the metaphysics of gender and feminist epistemology).

Michael McKinsey is Professor of Philosophy at Wayne State University. He is the author of many articles in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and ethics. His work has primarily concerned the semantics of natural language, especially the meaning and reference of proper names, indexicals, and natural kind terms, as well as the meaning and logical form of cognitive ascriptions.

Brian P. McLaughlin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He has published numerous papers in a wide range of fields, including philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical logic. He has a forthcoming book with Oxford University Press, co‐authored with Vann McGee, entitled Terrestrial Logic: Formal Semantics Brought Down to Earth.

Bence Nanay is professor of philosophy and BOF research professor at the University of Antwerp. He published three monographs with Oxford University Press (Between Perception and Action, 2013, Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception, 2016, Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction, 2019) with seven more under contract. He has won the prestigious Bessel Award of the Humboldt Foundation, Germany. He is the principal investigator of a two million Euro ERC grant and the director of the European Network for Sensory Research.

Martine Nida‐Rümelin is Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Her research focuses on issues in the intersection of philosophy of mind and metaphysics concerning the ontological status of conscious beings, their identity (across time and possible worlds), and the nature of their experiential properties. Further topics in the center of her research are pre‐reflective self‐awareness and self‐reference; and agency, freedom, and the capacity of being active (in human and nonhuman animals). She aims at developing a naturalistic version of subject‐body dualism which avoids the weaknesses of traditional substance dualism. She has been awarded the Jean‐Nicod‐Price 2019 for her work in philosophy of mind and is the announced recipient of the Frege Prize 2022.

Adam Pautz is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. He works on the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. He is the author of Perception (Routledge, 2021) and is writing a book on consciousness.

Christopher Peacocke is Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Philosophy in the School of Advanced Studies in the University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Ian Phillips is Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of numerous articles, focusing especially on the nature of perception, the science of consciousness, and our experience of time.

Jesse Prinz is Distinguished of Philosophy at the City University of New York, Graduate Center. His books and articles concern various aspects of the mind, including consciousness, concepts, emotion, moral psychology, aesthetic experience, and cultural...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• ISBN-10: 1-119-63703-1 / 1119637031
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-63703-5 / 9781119637035