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

• Autore: Mandik Pete
• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Malden, MA., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 p.)
• Disciplina: 128/.2
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy of mind; Philosophical behaviorism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: This is philosophy of mind
• ISBN: 1-118-60739-2; 1-118-60748-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463064103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: This is Philosophy