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Mind and body / Robert Kirk.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kirk, Robert, 1933-
Series:
Central problems of philosophy.
Central problems of philosophy
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Materialism.
Mind and body--Philosophy.
Mind and body.
Physical Description:
200 p. : ill.
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.
Language Note:
English
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.
Contents:
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1-283-53093-7
9786613843388
0-7735-8282-7
OCLC:
767671226

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