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I am not a brain : philosophy of mind for the twenty-first century / Markus Gabriel ; translated by Christopher Turner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gabriel, Markus, 1980- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy of mind.
- Consciousness.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 244 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2017.
- Contents:
- Introduction 1
- Mind and Geist 3
- Elementary particles and conscious organisms 5
- The decade of the brain 8
- Can the mind be free in a brain scan? 14
- The self as a USB stick 19
- Neuromania and Darwinitis - the example of Fargo 22
- Mind - brain - ideology 24
- The cartography of self-interpretation 28
- 1 What is at Stake in the Philosophy of Mind? 31
- Mind in the universe? 33
- In the spirit of Hegel 35
- The historical animal on the social stage 39
- Why not everything, but at least something, is teleological 41
- 2 Consciousness 47
- I see something that you do not see! 51
- Neuronal thunderstorms and the arena of consciousness 56
- Buddha, the snake and the bat - again 59
- Surfing on the wave of neuro-Kantianism 61
- Nothing is beyond our experience - or is it? 63
- Faith, love, hope - are they all just illusions? 69
- An altruist is lodged in every ego 75
- Davidson's dog and Derrida's cat 79
- Tasty consciousness 84
- The intelligence of the robot vacuum cleaner 86
- Strange Days - the noise of consciousness 90
- What Mary still doesn't know 96
- The discovery of the universe in a monastery 99
- Sensations are not subtitles to a Chinese movie 102
- God's-eye view 108
- 3 Self-Consciousness 110
- How history can expand our consciousness 114
- Monads in the mill 120
- Bio is not always better than techno 124
- How the clown attempted to get rid of omnipotence 127
- Self-consciousness in a circle 132
- 4 Who or What is This Thing We Call the Self? 137
- The reality of illusions 139
- Puberty-reductionism and the toilet theory 141
- Self is god 144
- Fichte: the almost forgotten grandmaster of the self 149
- The three pillars of the science of knowledge 152
- In the human being nature opens her eyes and sees that she exists 158
- "Let Daddy take care of this": Freud and Stromberg 161
- Drives meet hard facts 166
- Oedipus and the milk carton 170
- 5 Freedom 178
- Can I will not to will what I will? 183
- The self is not a one-armed bandit 187
- Why cause and reason are not the same thing and what that has to do with tomato sauce 193
- Friendly smites meanie and defeats metaphysical pessimism 199
- Human dignity is inviolable 205
- On the same level as God or nature? 208
- PS: There are no savages 213
- Man is not a face drawn in the sand 217.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gabriel, Markus, 1980- author. I am not a brain
- ISBN:
- 9781509514755
- 1509514759
- OCLC:
- 991535947
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