The Metaphysics of Mind

Janet Levin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

75 Seiten

2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-92507-5 (ISBN)

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The Metaphysics of Mind presents and discusses the major contemporary theories of the nature of mind, including Dualism, Physicalism, Role-Functionalism, Russellian Monism, Panpsychism, and Eliminativism. Its primary goal is to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the theories in question, including their prospects for explaining the special qualitative character of sensations and perceptual experiences, the special outer-directedness of beliefs, desires, and other intentional states, and—more generally—the place of mind in the world of nature, and the relation between mental states and the behaviors that they (seem to) cause. It also discusses, briefly, some further questions about the metaphysics of mind, namely, whether groups of individuals, or entire communities, can possess mental states that cannot be reduced to the mental states of the individuals in those communities, and whether the boundaries between mind and world are as sharp as they may seem.

1. Introduction ; 2. Dualism; 3. The Type Identity Theory; 4. Role Functionalism; 5. Does Consciousness Have a Place in Nature?; 6. Intentional States; 7. Russellian Monism; 8. Eliminativism; 9. Some Further Questions.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Philosophy of Mind
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	121 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	1-108-92507-3 / 1108925073
ISBN-13	978-1-108-92507-5 / 9781108925075
Zustand	Neuware