(Ebook) An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind 1st Edition by Keith Maslin ISBN 0745616879 9780745616872

(Ebook) An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind 1st Edition by Keith Maslin ISBN 0745616879 9780745616872

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ISBN 10: 0745616879 
ISBN 13: 9780745616872
Author: Keith Maslin

• fully updated and expanded throughout
• includes a new chapter which explores Aristotles philosophy of psychology and mind
• designed to help students think for themselves and contains exercises throughout the text to stimulate and challenge the reader
• an excellent introduction to this subject for A-Level and first year undergraduates

(Ebook) An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind 1st Table of contents:

• Part I: The Mind-Body Problem

  • Chapter 1: Introducing the Mind-Body Problem

    • What is the Philosophy of Mind?

    • The Problem of Consciousness

    • The Problem of Mental Causation

    • Historical Context

  • Chapter 2: Dualism: Minds and Bodies as Distinct Substances

    • Descartes' Substance Dualism

    • Arguments for Dualism (Conceivability, Divisibility)

    • Problems for Dualism (Interaction Problem, Causal Closure)

    • Property Dualism

  • Chapter 3: Behaviorism: Mind as Behavior

    • Logical Behaviorism

    • Methodological Behaviorism

    • Ryle's Ghost in the Machine

    • Problems for Behaviorism (Mental States without Behavior, Qualia)

  • Chapter 4: Identity Theory: Mind as Brain

    • Type Identity Theory

    • Token Identity Theory

    • Arguments for Identity Theory (Ockham's Razor, Causal Role)

    • Problems for Identity Theory (Multiple Realizability, Leibniz's Law)

  • Chapter 5: Functionalism: Mind as Software

    • What is Functionalism? (Machine Functionalism, Causal Role Functionalism)

    • Multiple Realizability and Functionalism

    • Arguments for Functionalism

    • Problems for Functionalism (The Chinese Room, Qualia, Inverted Spectrum)

• Part II: Consciousness, Qualia, and Experience

  • Chapter 6: Consciousness and Intentionality

    • What is Consciousness?

    • Phenomenal vs. Access Consciousness

    • Intentionality: Aboutness of Mental States

  • Chapter 7: The Explanatory Gap and Qualia

    • The Hard Problem of Consciousness

    • What are Qualia?

    • Knowledge Argument (Mary's Room)

    • Zombie Argument

  • Chapter 8: Physicalism and Consciousness

    • Attempts to Close the Explanatory Gap

    • Emergentism

    • Panpsychism

    • Representationalism

  • Chapter 9: Non-Reductive Physicalism

    • Why Not Just Reduce?

    • Supervenience

    • Anomalous Monism

• Part III: Mental Causation, Agency, and Self

  • Chapter 10: Mental Causation

    • The Problem of Mental Causation for Physicalism

    • Epiphenomenalism

    • Overdetermination and Exclusion

    • Reconciling Mental and Physical Causation

  • Chapter 11: Free Will and Determinism

    • The Problem of Free Will

    • Determinism

    • Compatibilism

    • Incompatibilism (Libertarianism, Hard Determinism)

  • Chapter 12: Personal Identity and the Self

    • What Makes You You?

    • Bodily Continuity

    • Psychological Continuity

    • The Self as a Narrative Construction

• Part IV: Extended Mind and Embodied Cognition

  • Chapter 13: Situated, Embodied, and Extended Cognition

    • Beyond the Brain-in-a-Vat

    • The Role of the Body and Environment in Cognition

    • The Extended Mind Hypothesis

    • Active Externalism

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