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A materialist theory of the mind
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ISBN: 1134856350 1280058331 9786610058334 0203003233 9780203003237 9781134856305 9781134856343 9781134856350 9781138168046 9780415100311 1134856342 Year: 2003 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Breaking new ground in the debate about the relation of mind and body, David Armstrong's classic text - first published in 1968 - remains the most compelling and comprehensive statement of the view that the mind is material or physical.In the preface to this new edition, the author reflects on the book's impact and considers it in the light of subsequent developments. He also provides a bibliography of all the key writings to have appeared in the materialist debate.


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The phenomenology of the body : the twentieth annual symposium of the Simon Silverman phenomenology Center
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ISBN: 0970688644 9780970688644 Year: 2003 Publisher: Pittsburg: Duquesne university press,

Lost souls : the philosophic origins of a cultural dilemma
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ISBN: 0791457567 0791457559 Year: 2003 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

Imagination and the meaningful brain
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ISBN: 1282097075 0262280043 9786612097072 0585450676 0262303280 9780262280044 9780585450674 9780262134255 026213425X 9780262303286 9781282097070 6612097078 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,

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The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works--how it turns "matter into imagination." In Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims that subjective human experience must be included in any scientific explanation of how the mind/brain works. Contrary to current attempts to describe mental functioning as a form of computation, his view is that the construction of meaning is not the same as information processing. The intrapsychic complexities of human psychology, as observed through introspection and empathic knowledge of other minds, must be added to the third-person perspective of cognitive psychology and neuroscience.Assuming that other mammals are conscious and conscious of their feelings, Modell emphasizes evolutionary continuities and discontinuities of emotion. The limbic system, the emotional brain, is of ancient origin, but only humans have the capacity for generative imagination. By means of metaphor, we are able to interpret, displace, and transform our feelings. To bolster his argument, Modell draws on a variety of disciplines--including psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology, neurobiology, evolutionary biology, linguistics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. Only by integrating the objectivity of neuroscience, the phenomenology of introspection, and the intersubjective knowledge of psychoanalysis, he claims, will we be able fully to understand how the mind works.

Lost souls : the philosophic origins of a cultural dilemma
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ISBN: 9781417524146 0791486710 1417524146 9781417524143 0791457559 9780791457559 0791457567 9780791457566 9780791486719 Year: 2003 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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Lost Souls examines the origins and consequences of the philosophic idea that mind and body are distinct. The author traces mind-body dualism from Plato, Plotinus, Augustine, and Proclus through Descartes and Kant to Nietzsche, Heidegger, Carnap, and Quine. Mind's separation from body has dominated philosophic thinking for millennia, yet most mental activities are now explained in physical terms. What are the implications if mind is material and mortal? Considering both philosophic and scientific ideas about mind, David Weissman explores our options. Rejecting the claim that the character and existence of other things are an effect of the ways we think about or perceive them, he reexamines such topics as meaning and truth, human significance, self, and society. He argues that philosophers have the rare opportunity to renew inquiry by invoking the questions that once directed them: What are we? What is our place in the world? What concerns are appropriate to being here?

The apocalyptic year 1000 : religious expectation and social change, 950-1050
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ISBN: 0195111915 0195161629 0199849668 Year: 2003 Publisher: Oxford ; New York Oxford University Press

Minds, brains and science
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ISBN: 9780674576339 0674576314 0674576330 9780674576315 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press,

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Minds, Brains and Science takes up just the problems that perplex people, and it does what good philosophy always does: it dispels the illusion caused by the specious collision of truths. How do we reconcile common sense and science? John Searle argues vigorously that the truths of common sense and the truths of science are both right and that the only question is how to fit them together.Searle explains how we can reconcile an intuitive view of ourselves as conscious, free, rational agents with a universe that science tells us consists of mindless physical particles. He briskly and lucidly sets out his arguments against the familiar positions in the philosophy of mind, and details the consequences of his ideas for the mind-body problem, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, questions of action and free will, and the philosophy of the social sciences.

Descartes's theory of mind
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ISBN: 0199261237 9780199261239 0199284946 9780199284948 019159721X 0191532088 9786611198145 1281198145 1423757297 Year: 2003 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,

The life of the mind : an essay on phenomenological externalism
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ISBN: 9780415266239 041526622X 0415266238 0203986954 9780203986950 1134501099 9781134501090 1280108266 9781280108266 1134501102 9781134501106 1134501072 9781134501052 9780415266222 9781134501076 Year: 2003 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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