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Mind and Body.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (209 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317489269
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mind and BodyDDC classification:
  • 128.2
LOC classification:
  • BF161 .K57 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: are we just machines? -- 2 Is there something extra? -- 3 Physicalism -- 4 Some objections to physicalism -- 5 Behaviourism -- 6 Functionalism -- 7 More about thinking -- 8 More about feeling -- 9 Conclusion -- Websites -- References -- Index.
Summary: A great deal of work in philosophy is concerned with some aspect of the complex tangle of problems and puzzles roughly labelled the mind-body problem. This book offers an introduction to this problem. It discusses mechanism - the idea that minds are machines - focusing on Searle's Chinese Room argument.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: are we just machines? -- 2 Is there something extra? -- 3 Physicalism -- 4 Some objections to physicalism -- 5 Behaviourism -- 6 Functionalism -- 7 More about thinking -- 8 More about feeling -- 9 Conclusion -- Websites -- References -- Index.

A great deal of work in philosophy is concerned with some aspect of the complex tangle of problems and puzzles roughly labelled the mind-body problem. This book offers an introduction to this problem. It discusses mechanism - the idea that minds are machines - focusing on Searle's Chinese Room argument.

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