Philosophy of Mind – serie
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21 produkter
The Conscious Mind
In Search of a Fundamental Theory
Häftad, 1998
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261 kr
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What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning?David J. Chalmers unveils a major new theory of consciousness, one that rejects the prevailing reductionist …
Consciousness and Fundamental Reality
Av Philip Goff
Häftad, 2024
328 kr
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A core philosophical project is the attempt to uncover the fundamental nature of reality, the limited set of facts upon which all other facts depend. Perhaps the most popular theory of fundamental reality in contemporary analytic philosophy is physicalism, the view that the world is fundamentally …
Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics
Av Shan Gao
Inbunden, 2023
1276 kr
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Consciousness and quantum mechanics are two great mysteries of our time--and recently scholars have postulated a deeper connection between them. Exploring this possible connection can be fruitful: an analysis of the conscious mind and psychophysical connection can be indispensable in understanding …
The Character of Consciousness
Inbunden, 2010
2994 kr
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What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective world? How can there be a science of consciousness? In this sequel to his groundbreaking and controversial The Conscious Mind, David Chalmers develops a unified framework that addresses these questions …
Consciousness and the Prospects of Physicalism
Häftad, 2017
895 kr
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In this book, Derk Pereboom explores how physicalism might best be formulated and defended against the best anti-physicalist arguments. Two responses to the knowledge and conceivability arguments are set out and developed. The first exploits the open possibility that introspective representations …
The View from Everywhere
Realist Idealism without God
Inbunden, 2025
920 kr
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Few contemporary philosophers take idealism seriously. The View from Everywhere aims to change this, developing a new quasi-Berkeleyan realist idealism, which does not depend upon God to do the metaphysical heavy lifting. This non-theistic idealism requires a fresh approach to the persistence and …
What are Mental Representations?
Av Joulia Smortchkova, Krzysztof Dołęga m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1811 kr
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The topic of this book is mental representation, a theoretical concept that lies at the core of cognitive science. Together with the idea that thinking is analogous to computational processing, this concept is responsible for the "cognitive turn" in the sciences of the mind and brain since the …
Self Expressions
Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life
Inbunden, 1996
1985 kr
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Continuing the old philosophical project of reconciling a scientific view of ourselves with the view of ourselves as agents of free will and meaning, but bringing to this project the latest insights of neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychiatry, Flanagan's collection of essays explores topics …
Deconstructing the Mind
Inbunden, 1996
1848 kr
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Over the last two decades, debates over the viability of commonsense psychology have been centre stage in both cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. Eliminativists have argued that advances in cognitive science and neuroscience will ultimately justify a rejection of our "folk" theory of the …
Minds and Bodies
Philosophers and Their Ideas
Av Colin McGinn
Inbunden, 1997
3040 kr
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In Minds and Bodies, one of philosophy's most dynamic and versatile thinkers gathers nearly forty review essays written over the past twenty years for non-specialized publications. They cover biography, particularly of Russell and Wittgenstein; philosophy of mind, especially consciousness; and …
What's Within?
Nativism Reconsidered
Av Fiona Cowie
Inbunden, 1999
1555 kr
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This powerfully iconoclastic book reconsiders the influential nativist position toward the mind. Nativists assert that some concepts, beliefs, or capacities are innate or inborn: native to the mind rather than acquired. Fiona Cowie argues that this view is mistaken, demonstrating that nativism is …
Self Expressions
Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life
Häftad, 1998
1465 kr
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Continuing the old philosophical project of reconciling a scientific view of ourselves with the view of ourselves as agents of free will and meaning, but bringing to this project the latest insights of neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychiatry, Flanagan's collection of essays explores topics …
Deconstructing the Mind
Häftad, 1999
960 kr
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In this book, Stich unravels - or deconstructs - the doctrine called "eliminativism". Eliminativism claims that beliefs, desires, and many other mental states we use to describe the mind do not exist, but are fictional posits of a badly mistaken theory of "folk psychology". Stich makes a U-turn in …
The Human Animal
Personal Identity Without Psychology
Häftad, 1999
1253 kr
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Most philosophers writing about personal identity in recent years claim that what it takes for us to persist through time is a matter of psychology. In this groundbreaking new book, Eric Olson argues that such approaches face daunting problems, and he defends in their place a radically …
Consciousness and Cognition
Av Michael Thau
Inbunden, 2002
1390 kr
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Thau maintains that our conception of consciousness begins with and depends upon a few fundamental errors. He elucidates these errors by discussing three important philosophical puzzles--Spectrum Inversion, Frege's Puzzle, and Black-and-White Mary -- each of which concerns some aspect of either …
The Character of Consciousness
Häftad, 2010
797 kr
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What is consciousness? How does the subjective character of consciousness fit into an objective world? How can there be a science of consciousness? In this sequel to his groundbreaking and controversial The Conscious Mind, David Chalmers develops a unified framework that addresses these questions …
Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind
Inbunden, 2009
1610 kr
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Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind surveys philosophical issues raised by the situated movement in cognitive science, that is, the treatment of cognitive phenomena as the joint product of brain, body, and environment. The book focuses primarily on the hypothesis of extended cognition, which …
Ignorance and Imagination
The Epistemic Origin of the Problem of Consciousness
Häftad, 2009
732 kr
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Ignorance and Imagination advances a novel way to resolve the central philosophical problem about the mind: how it is that consciousness or experience fits into a larger naturalistic picture of the world. The correct response to the problem, Stoljar argues, is not to posit a realm of experience …
Consciousness as Representing One's Mind
The Higher-Order Approach to Consciousness Explained
Inbunden, 2025
920 kr
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The science of consciousness is now at the point where we need to evaluate the theories of consciousness currently on offer. Higher-order theories of consciousness, having originated in philosophy rather than science, are at this point not well understood. Even worse, it is often not clear what …
House of Mirrors
The Illusion of Phenomenal Consciousness
Inbunden, 2026
977 kr
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This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence.Seeing a red spot, feeling back pain, imagining the sound of a harp: all …
The Innocent Eye
Why Vision Is Not a Cognitive Process
Av Nico Orlandi
Inbunden, 2014
1280 kr
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Why does the world look to us as it does? Generally speaking, this question has received two types of answers in the cognitive sciences in the past fifty or so years. According to the first, the world looks to us the way it does because we construct it to look as it does. According to the second, …
