Matter and Consciousness, revised edition: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind - Couverture souple

Churchland, Paul M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0262530740 ISBN 13 : 9780262530743

Editeur : The MIT Press, 1988

Synopsis

In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland clearly presents the advantages and disadvantages of such difficult issues in philosophy of mind as behaviorism, reductive materialism, functionalism, and eliminative materialism. This new edition incorporates the striking developments that have taken place in neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence and notes their expanding relevance to philosophical issues.

Churchland organizes and clarifies the new theoretical and experimental results of the natural sciences for a wider philosophical audience, observing that this research bears directly on questions concerning the basic elements of cognitive activity and their implementation in real physical systems. (How is it, he asks, that living creatures perform some cognitive tasks so swiftly and easily, where computers do them only badly or not at all?) Most significant for philosophy, Churchland asserts, is the support these results tend to give to the reductive and the eliminative versions of materialism.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Paul M. Churchland is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul, Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (both published by the MIT Press), and other books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262530740
• ISBN 13: 9780262530743
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 198
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