Pluralism and the Mind:
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1. Verfasser: Colborn, Matthew (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Luton Andrews UK 2011
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Beschreibung:Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Body Matter; Introduction: The Persistent Question; Part One: Historical Context; 1. From Animism to Mechanism; 2. Vital Fluids, Darwin and Mechanical Men; 3. Mind and Consciousness in the Late Nineteenth Century; 4. Behaviourism, Computers and Exorcists; Part Two: Philosophical Considerations; 5. Ontology; 6. Epistemology; 7. The Problem of Biological Causation; Part Three: Physicalism and its Limits; 8. The Computational Model of Mind; 9. Some Theories of Consciousness
10. Neuroimaging and its LimitsPart Four: Controversies and Speculations; 11. Pluralism and the Mind; 12. Consciousness, Teleology and Evolution; 13. Free Will; 14. The Hidden Portion and Our Selves; 15. Limits of the Possible; Conclusion: Pluralism, Consciousness and Society; Back Matter; Bibliography; Also Available
Paul Feyerabend noted that ' ... the world which we want to explore is a largely unknown entity. We must, therefore, keep our options open and ... not restrict ourselves in advance.' (1975, p. 20). Given that consciousness is poorly understood and vaguely defined, such advice seems sound, but is frequently ignored in favour of an insistence that a scientific theory of consciousness must be reducible to current monist physics and biology. This book argues that such an insistence is historically un ..
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