Paul Churchland / edited by Brian L. Keeley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keeley, Brian L., editor.

Series:

Contemporary philosophy in focus.

Contemporary philosophy in focus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Churchland, Paul M., 1942-.

Churchland, Paul M.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 212 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For over three decades, Paul Churchland has been a provocative and controversial philosopher of mind and of science. He is most famous as an advocate of 'eliminative materialism', whereby he suggests that our commonsense understanding of our own minds is radically defective and that the science of brain demonstrates this (just as an understanding of physics reveals that our commonsense understanding of a flat and motionless earth is similarly false). This collection offers an introduction to Churchland's work, as well as a critique of some of his most famous philosophical positions. Including contributions by both established and promising young philosophers, it is intended to complement the growing literature on Churchland, focusing on his contributions in isolation from those of his wife and philosophical partner, Patricia Churchland, as well as on his contributions to philosophy as distinguished from those to Cognitive Science.

Contents:

Becoming Paul M. Churchland (1942

) / Brian L. Keeley

Arguing for eliminativism / José Luis Bermúdez

The introspectibility of brain states as such / Pete Mandik

Empiricism and state space semantics / Jesse J. Prinz

Churchland on connectionism / Aarre Laakso & Garrison W. Cottrell

Reduction as cognitive strategy / A. Hooker

The unexpected realist / William H. Krieger & Brian L. Keeley

Two steps closer on consciousness / Daniel C. Dennett.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14803-0

1-280-42168-1

0-511-14051-7

1-139-16528-3

0-511-18301-1

0-511-13916-0

0-511-31110-9

0-511-13974-8

OCLC:

437160074