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Mind and body /

A great deal of work in philosophy is concerned with some aspect of the complex tangle of problems and puzzles roughly labelled the mind-body problem. This book offers an introduction to this problem. It discusses mechanism - the idea that minds are machines - focusing on Searle's Chinese Room...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kirk, Robert, 1933-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2003.
Colección:Central problems of philosophy (Montréal, Québec)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: are we just machines?
  • 2. Is there something extra?
  • 3. Physicalism
  • 4. Some objections to physicalism
  • 5. Behaviourism
  • 6. Functionalism
  • 7. More about thinking
  • 8. More about feeling
  • 9. Conclusion.