Brain and Mind

Modern Concepts of the Nature of Mind

J. R. Smythies, J. R. Smythies

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Année: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781317579557
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Philosophie
• Sous-sujet: Histoire et théorie de la philosophie

Presenting some modern views on the problem of the nature of mind and its relationship to the brain, this book, published in 1965, brings together contributors from various disciplines which are affected by this issue. Coming from different philosophical outlooks as well as subjects, these contributors also comment on each other's' chapters with a view of developing thought on the approaches to the problem. The theory of mind-brain relationship is vital to human interest and has been in debate throughout western thought over centuries, split mainly into dualist and monistic theories. These discussions had and still have wide impact philosophy, psychology, religion and cosmology, among other areas.

INDEX

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Aaron, R. I., 244, 248

Action assessment, 116, 124

After-image, 94, 107

— spatial characteristics of, 242–3

All Hallow’s Eve, 29

Anscombe, G. E. M., 114

Anderson, J., 215

Aphasia, 176

Armstrong, D. M., 38, 232, 243, 248, 250, 254

Armstrong’s theory of pereption, 250–1

Artefacts, consciousness and, 185–6

— deterministic, 170

— handling concepts, 174–7

— having minds, 185–6, 193

— imaginative powers of, 178–80, 181–4

— information processing powers of, 190

— mind-like behaviour of, 165 f.

— modelling all describable behaviour, 163 f., 192

— modelling human behaviour, 163 f., 192

— only statistically deterministic, 171–4, 188

— personality of, 184–6

— selective ‘attention’ of, 175

Attention, modelled by artefact, 175

Augoϵidϵs, 30

Ayer, A. J., 89–90, 102, 214, 217–18, 231

Babbage, Charles, 165

Behaviour, modelled by artefact, 163 f., 192

Behaviourism, 155

— dispositional, 212

— radical, 212, 250–1, 263

Beloff, J., 244, 251

Berkeley, Bishop, 23, 140, 151

Berg, Charles, 116, 122

Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology, 51

Body, identification of one’s own, 96–7, 99, 107

Body-image, 8, 9, 31, 237

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