1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463064103321

Autore

Mandik Pete

Titolo

This is philosophy of mind [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction / / Pete Mandik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Malden, MA., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

ISBN

1-118-60739-2

1-118-60748-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Collana

This is philosophy ; ; 2996

Disciplina

128/.2

Soggetti

Philosophy of mind

Philosophical behaviorism

Electronic books.

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; How to Use This Book; Acknowledgments; 1: Meet Your Mind; Aspects of Mind; Thought and experience; Conscious and unconscious; Qualia; Sensory perception; Emotion; Imagery; Will and action; Self; Propositional attitudes; Philosophical Problems; Mind-body problem; Other problems; Conclusion; Annotated Bibliography; 2: Substance Dualism; Arguments for Substance Dualism; Leibniz's law arguments; Criticism of Leibniz's law arguments: Intensional fallacy; Explanatory gap arguments; Criticisms of explanatory gap arguments; Modal arguments

Criticism of the modal arguments: Does conceivability really entail possibility?Mind-Body Interaction as a Problem for Substance Dualism; Princess Elisabeth's objection; The dualistic alternatives to Cartesian interactionism; Conclusion; Annotated Bibliography; 3: Property Dualism; Introducing Property Dualism: Qualia and the Brain; The Inverted Spectrum; Attack of the Zombies; The Knowledge Argument; The Explanatory Gap Argument; Does Property Dualism Lead to Epiphenomenalism?; How Do You Know You're Not a Zombie?; Conclusion; Annotated Bibliography; 4: Idealism, Solipsism, and Panpsychism

Solipsism: Is It Just Me?Idealism: It's All in the Mind; Berkeley's argument from pain; Berkeley's argument from perceptual relativity:



Berkeley's bucket; Berkeley's "Nothing but an idea can resemble an idea"; Berkeley's master argument; Why Berkeley is not a solipsist; Arguing against idealism; Panpsychism: Mind Is Everywhere; The analogy argument; The nothing from nothing argument; The evolutionary argument; Arguing against panpsychism: The combination problem; Conclusion; Annotated Bibliography; 5: Behaviorism and Other Minds; Behaviorism: Introduction and Overview

The History of BehaviorismLudwig Wittgenstein and the private language argument; Gilbert Ryle versus the ghost in the machine; Objections to Behaviorism; The qualia objection; Sellars's objection; The Geach-Chisholm objection; The Philosophical Problem of Other Minds; The rise and fall of the argument from analogy; Denying the asymmetry between self-knowledge and knowledge of other minds; Conclusion; Annotated Bibliography; 6: Mind as Brain; Introducing Mind-Brain Identity Theory; Advantages of Mind-Brain Identity Theory; A Very Brief Overview of Neuroscience

Major parts and functions of the nervous systemMajor parts and functions of the brain; Neurons, neural activations, and brain states; Lesions, imaging, and electrophysiology; Localism and holism; Learning and synaptic plasticity; Computational neuroscience and connectionism; Neural correlates of consciousness; On pain and c-fibers; Some General Remarks about Identity; Arguments against Mind-Brain Identity Theory; The zombie argument; The multiple realizability argument; Max Black's "distinct property" argument; Conclusion; Annotated Bibliography; 7: Thinking Machines; Can a Machine Think?

Alan Turing, Turing Machines, and the Turing Test

Sommario/riassunto

This is Philosophy of Mind presents students of philosophy with an accessible introduction to the core issues related to the philosophy of mind. Includes issues related to the mind-body problem, artificial intelligence, free will, the nature of consciousness, and moreWritten to be accessible to philosophy students early in their studiesFeatures supplemental online resources on www.thisisphilosophy.com and a frequently updated companion blog, at http://tipom.blogspot.com



2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991000451609707536

Titolo

Le tecniche calcografiche d'incisione diretta : bulino, puntasecca maniera nera / a cura di Ginevra Mariani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : De Luca, 2006

ISBN

8880165194

Descrizione fisica

157 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Collana

Lineamenti di storia delle tecniche ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

Mariani, Ginevra

Altri autori (Enti)

Istituto Nazionale per la grafica

Disciplina

760.28

Soggetti

Incisione - Tecnica

Calcografia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Include bibliografia (p. 155-[158]).



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787989803321

Autore

Sef Ariela Abramovich

Titolo

Born in the Ghetto : my triumph over adversity / / Ariela Abramovich Sef ; translated by Kathrine Judelson and S. Abramovich ; English edition edited by S. Abramovich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middlesex, England ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Gainsborough House Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-909719-03-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JudelsonKathrine

AbramovichS

Disciplina

918.1092358

Soggetti

Soviet Union History

Soviet Union Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter; Title Page; Contents; Figures; Who's Who; Introduction; PART ONE: ARIELA'S LIFE; Born In The Ghetto; To The Orphanage; Mama Julia; Liberation; Our Scattered Family; Rescuing Lost Children; Restaurants; Uncle Naum, Aunt Lily And Anya; Madames Kupritz And Tsitses; School; A Funeral; Our New Nanny Onute; The Fur Coat; Yadviga Vikentievna And Nina Rachkovskaya; Our Yard; The Black Staircase; Summer Holidays; Aunt Lily And Uncle Naum Return; Special Occasions; Mother, Father And Leaving Home; Discharged And Expelled; The Bakulev Heart Institute; Paris; Hammersmith Hospital

Disasters StrikeThe Novi Cabaret; Do I Stay or Go?; Back In The USSR; Kaunas And Moscow; Kitty; Returning To Paris; The Loeb Twins; Andrei; Adventures With Andrei; Returning To Palanga; A Sitting Tenant; Birthdays And Goodbye; PART TWO: MEMORIES OF ARIELA; Kama Ginkas: I Too Was Born In The Ghetto; Solomon Abramovich: Sister Ariela; Alla Demidova: I'm Still Expecting Her Phone Call; Alexander And Lilia Mitta: Ariela As We Remember Her; Yulii Gustman: Ariela - A Name That Means Lioness; Makvala Kasrashvili: A Kind Heart Is A Gift From God; Nelly Belskaya: The 'Blue Disease'

Sergie Nikolaevich: A Present From ArielaOlga Yakovleva: Our Distant



Youth; Andrei Yakhontov: They Were An Impressive Couple; Karen Shakhnazarov: Recalling Ariela Sef; Ksenia Muratova: Ariela, Dear Heart; Svetlana And Vitalii Ignatenko: We Remember Her; APPENDIX 1; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book is for all lovers of autobiography, history, and those interested in personal accounts of World War II. It is a personal testimony and a family saga played out against a background of some of the most momentous historical events of the 20th century. A novelist inventing a heroine would have been unlikely to come up with a more dramatic and gripping plot than that of Ariela Abramovich Sef's life story. Ariela's life was shaped both by difficult circumstances and her triumphs in overcoming them. Ariela brings these events to life as she narrates her gripping stories of survival in the