Philosophy of Mind

The Metaphysics of Consciousness

AvDale Jacquette

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In Philosophy of Mind: The Metaphysics of Consciousness, Dale Jacquette provides students and professionals with a concise and accessible overview of this fascinating subject. The book covers all the key topics and debates in the philosophy of mind and introduces the full range of choices available in approaching the mind-body problem. Exploring classical and contemporary texts, the book surveys the subject's historical background and current applications. Crucially, Jacquette offers a defence of property dualism as an alternative solution to the mind-body problem, instead of the mainstream eliminativist and reductivist strategies. Clearly structured and featuring useful diagrams, a glossary of key terms, and advice on further reading, the book is ideal for classroom use. Fully revised, updated and expanded to meet the needs of a new generation of philosophy students, this second edition is the ideal companion to the study of the philosophy of mind.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-04-23
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:322
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781441199096
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation

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Dale Jacquette is Senior Professorial Chair in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is the author of The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (Acumen, 2005), Pathways in Philosophy (OUP, 2004), Ontology (Acumen, 2002) and Six Philosophical Appetizers (McGraw-Hill, 2001), and editor of Philosophy of Logic (Elsevier, 2007), The Cambridge Companion to Brentano (CUP, 2004), and A Companion to Philosophical Logic (Blackwell, 2002).

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"Dale Jacquette provides, in this much-expanded, much-reworked second edition of his 1994 Philosophy of Mind, an unusually helpful, clear, user-friendly compendium of the present state of play of the literature and treatment of the metaphysics of consciousness within the bounds of analytic philosophy. His book may well prove to be the most serviceable general introduction to the principal problems, arguments, theoretical options, and notable contributors to the field that one could possibly ask for. He puts an absolutely sprawling mountain of conceptual analysis into the simplest legible order. The discussion is remarkably straightforward, brief, to the point, very reliably informed, and generous in its coverage." - Joseph Margolis, Temple University, USA

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroduction: The Ontology of Mind1. Dualisms of Mental and Physical Phenomena2. Elimination and Reduction Strategies for the Concept of Mind: Behaviorism, Materialism, Functionalism3. Artificial Intelligence: Mechanism, Minds and Machines4. Intentionality and the Nature of Thought5. Supervenience and the Emergence of Consciousness6. The Dignity of MindAfterword: The Challenge of IntentionalismFurther Reading