This Is Philosophy of Mind An Introduction.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mandik, Pete
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • How to Use This Book
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1: Meet Your Mind
  • Aspects of Mind
  • Thought and experience
  • Conscious and unconscious
  • Qualia
  • Sensory perception
  • Emotion
  • Imagery
  • Will and action
  • Self
  • Propositional attitudes
  • Philosophical Problems
  • Mind-body problem
  • Other problems
  • Conclusion
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • 2: Substance Dualism
  • Arguments for Substance Dualism
  • Leibniz's law arguments
  • Criticism of Leibniz's law arguments: Intensional fallacy
  • Explanatory gap arguments
  • Criticisms of explanatory gap arguments
  • Modal arguments
  • Criticism of the modal arguments: Does conceivability really entail possibility?
  • Mind-Body Interaction as a Problem for Substance Dualism
  • Princess Elisabeth's objection
  • The dualistic alternatives to Cartesian interactionism
  • Conclusion
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • 3: Property Dualism
  • Introducing Property Dualism: Qualia and the Brain
  • The Inverted Spectrum
  • Attack of the Zombies
  • The Knowledge Argument
  • The Explanatory Gap Argument
  • Does Property Dualism Lead to Epiphenomenalism?
  • How Do You Know You're Not a Zombie?
  • Conclusion
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • 4: Idealism, Solipsism, and Panpsychism
  • Solipsism: Is It Just Me?
  • Idealism: It's All in the Mind
  • Berkeley's argument from pain
  • Berkeley's argument from perceptual relativity: Berkeley's bucket
  • Berkeley's "Nothing but an idea can resemble an idea"
  • Berkeley's master argument
  • Why Berkeley is not a solipsist
  • Arguing against idealism
  • Panpsychism: Mind Is Everywhere
  • The analogy argument
  • The nothing from nothing argument
  • The evolutionary argument
  • Arguing against panpsychism: The combination problem
  • Conclusion
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • 5: Behaviorism and Other Minds
  • Behaviorism: Introduction and Overview
  • The History of Behaviorism
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein and the private language argument
  • Gilbert Ryle versus the ghost in the machine
  • Objections to Behaviorism
  • The qualia objection
  • Sellars's objection
  • The Geach-Chisholm objection
  • The Philosophical Problem of Other Minds
  • The rise and fall of the argument from analogy
  • Denying the asymmetry between self-knowledge and knowledge of other minds
  • Conclusion
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • 6: Mind as Brain
  • Introducing Mind-Brain Identity Theory
  • Advantages of Mind-Brain Identity Theory
  • A Very Brief Overview of Neuroscience
  • Major parts and functions of the nervous system
  • Major parts and functions of the brain
  • Neurons, neural activations, and brain states
  • Lesions, imaging, and electrophysiology
  • Localism and holism
  • Learning and synaptic plasticity
  • Computational neuroscience and connectionism
  • Neural correlates of consciousness
  • On pain and c-fibers
  • Some General Remarks about Identity

Ejemplares similares