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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170995203321

Autore

Catalano Joseph S

Titolo

Thinking matter : consciousness from Aristotle to Putnam and Sartre / / Joseph S. Catalano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-135-95845-9

1-135-95846-7

1-280-35514-X

0-585-45155-9

0-203-90340-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

110

126

Soggetti

Consciousness

Matter

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-221) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Perspective; Matter and Pure Enquiry; Moving Matter, Thinking Thoughts; Knowledge as Worldmaking; Matters and Modalities; Names and Things; The Transcendence of Mind; The Written Word; Conclusion: The Anthropocentric Universe; The Snub and the Population Question; On Names; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Thinking Matter takes a provocative look at the nature of consciousness. It argues that it is the entire body that thinks not just the mind: the body of a dancer and the hands of a writer are not just instruments but forms of thought themselves.