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Mind and body / Robert Kirk.
- 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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