Matters of the Mind
1st Edition
Published on 5. August 2019
320 pages
978-1-4744-7038-4 (ISBN)
Description
In Matters of the Mind, the distinguished philosopher William Lyons presents a popular and authoritative account of the dramatically different ways in which philosophers have thought about the mind over the last hundred years.
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Matters of the Mind
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Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- 1 The Twilight of the 'Two Worlds' View
- The soul clapped hands
- The Cartesian legacy
- Gaps in the theory
- Practical problems
- 2 Observing the Human Animal
- The behaviourist manifesto
- Logical positivism and the 'logico-linguistic turn'
- Philophical or logical behaviourism
- 'The problem of diffuseness'
- 'The problem of privacy'
- 3 Nothing but the Brain
- New knowledge about the brain
- The 'identity theory' of mind
- Identities prove elusive
- 'Out of date, eliminate'
- 'The labelling fallacy'
- 4 Computers to the Rescue
- Computers come of age
- Computer programs and human intelligence
- The mind as the computer's software
- Functionalism becomes the orthodoxy of the day
- Chinese puzzles
- Absent qualia, inverted spectra and blindsight
- 5 The Bogey of Consciousness
- The case of the guillotined head
- Of bats and eels
- Subjectivity
- The appearance of Dijn
- Epistemological pessimism
- Knowing how and knowing why
- 6 The Pit and the Pendulum
- The pit and the pendulum
- Avoiding philosophical anorexia
- Substituting scientia for science
- Admitting consciousness into the realm of the physical
- Avoiding double vision
- Minds, and who may have them
- A Lamarckian valediction
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
