Natural minds /

In Natural Minds Thomas Polger advocates, and defends, the philosophical theory that mind equals brain--that sensations are brain processes--and in doing so brings the mind-brain identity theory back into the philosophical debate about consciousness. The version of identity theory that Polger advoca...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Polger, Thomas W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Temas:
Mind-brain identity theory.
Théorie de l'identité de l'esprit et du cerveau.
PHILOSOPHY > Mind & Body.
Mind-brain identity theory
Philosophy.
Philosophy & Religion.
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
PHILOSOPHY/General
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Minds, Brains, and Multiple Realizability
  • 2. The Illusion of Contingent Identity
  • 3. Varieties of Functionalism
  • 4. Realization and Generic Functionalism
  • 5. Functional Realizations
  • 6. Functional Properties and Mechanistic Explanations
  • 7. Dennett's Challenge
  • 8. Minds, Brains, and Persons.

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