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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784513203321

Autore

Place U. T (Ullin Thomas), <1924-2000.>

Titolo

Identifying the mind [[electronic resource] ] : selected papers of U.T. Place / / edited by George Graham, Elizabeth R. Valentine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y., : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-19-773053-1

1-280-56027-4

0-19-534763-3

1-4237-5682-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Collana

Philosophy of mind series

Altri autori (Persone)

GrahamGeorge <1945->

ValentineElizabeth R

Disciplina

128/.2

Soggetti

Mind-brain identity theory

Philosophy of mind

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. [201]-209) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Editorial Introduction: Place in Mind and Mind in Place George Graham and Elizabeth R. Valentine; 1 From Mystical Experience to Biological Consciousness: A Pilgrim's Progress?; 2 The Concept of Heed; 3 Is Consciousness a Brain Process?; 4 Materialism as a Scientific Hypothesis; 5 Consciousness in Psychology; 6 The Infallibility of Our Knowledge of Our Own Beliefs; 7 Thirty Years On-Is Consciousness Still a Brain Process?; 8 Token - versus Type-Identity Physicalism; 9 The Two-Factor Theory of the Mind-Brain Relation; 10 The Causal Potency of Qualia: Its Nature and Its Source

11 Consciousness and the "Zombie-Within": A Functional Analysis of the Blindsight Evidence12 On the Social Relativity of Truth and the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction; 13 The Role of the Ethnomethodological Experiment in the Empirical Investigation of Social Norms and Its Application to Conceptual Analysis; 14 Linguistic Behaviorism as a Philosophy of Empirical Science; Appendix: Publications of U. T. Place; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is a text by the pioneer of the identity theory of mind. The collection focuses on Place's philosophy of mind and his contributions



to neighbouring issues in metaphysics and epistemology. It includes an autobiographical essay and more.