Mind and Materialism - Couverture souple

Maddell, Geoffrey

 
9780852246023: Mind and Materialism

Synopsis

This book deals with the materialist view of the nature of the mind. Geoffrey Madell outlines past and current materialist views and the arguments which have been put forward refuting these. He examines the four alleged "failures" in the materialist programme - the failure to make sense of intentionality of thought - the lack of a convincing explanation of the autonomy of psychology - the failure of materialism to take the essential subjectivity of experience into account - and the fact that materialism cannot account for indexical thought - thoughts centring on words like "this", "here" and "I". He then puts forward an argument for the claim that the strengths of a Cartesian position on the subject have been greatly underestimated.

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9780852245750: Mind and Materialism

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0852245750 ISBN 13 :  9780852245750
Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 1988
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