Exploring what great philosophers have written about the nature of thought and consciousness Philosophy of Mind: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive overview of this fascinating field. Thirteen specially commissioned essays, written by leading experts, introduce and explore the contributions of those philosophers who have shaped the subject and the central issues and arguments therein.
The modern debate about the mind was shaped by Descartes in the seventeenth century, and then reshaped in the mid-twentieth century, and since, by exciting developments in science and philosophy. This book concentrates on the development of philosophical views on the mind since Descartes, offering coverage of the leading thinkers in the field including Husserl, Ryle, Lewis, Putnam, Fodor, Davidson, Dennett and the Churchlands. Crucially the book demonstrates how the ideas and arguments of these key thinkers have contributed to our understanding of the relationship between mind and brain.
Ideal for undergraduate students, the book lays the necessary foundations for a complete and thorough understanding of this fascinating subject.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Chapter one Introduction: 90 years of philosophy of mind
- Chapter Two Decoding Descartes’ ‘myth’ of mind
- Chapter Three Edmund Husserl and phenomenology
- Chapter Four Merleau-Ponty: A phenomenological philosophy of mind and body
- Chapter Five Gilbert Ryle and logical behaviourism
- Chapter Six The contributions of U. T. Place, H. Feigl and J. J. C. Smart to the identity theory of consciousness
- Chapter Seven David Lewis, David Armstrong and the causal theory of the mind
- Chapter Eight Hilary Putnam and computational functionalism
- Chapter Nine Jerry Fodor and the representational theory of mind
- Chapter Ten Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett and the origins of the normative model of the mind
- Chapter Eleven Tracking representationalism: William Lycan, Fred Dretske and Michael Tye
- Chapter Twelve The neurophilosophies of Patricia and Paul Churchland
- Chapter Thirteen Andy Clark, Antonio Damasio and embodied cognition
- Chapter Fourteen David Chalmers on mind and consciousness
- Chapter Fifteen Postscript: Philosophy of mind – the next ten years
- Index
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