Philosophy of Mind, 2

by Kathleen Lennon, Stephen Burwood, Paul B. Gilbert

The authors explain the ideas of philosophers such as Wittgenstein, Putnam, Fodor, Davidson, Dennett, and Merleau-Ponty and examine the famous examples these and other philosophers have introduced. They also provide an overview of the issues and debates involving reductionism, functionalism, computational theories of mind, connectionism, the language of thought, externalism versus internalism in the theory of thought content, interpretationism, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773518266
• ISBN13: 9780773518261
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 12.5" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

good quick reference

I'm supposed to be writing a paper on the nature of consciousness, and I'm using this book as my main source for the philosophical side of things. It's very good for that sort of thing, being a reletivly condensed overview of the topic.