The Nature of True Minds

by John Heil

Book Overview

This book aims at reconciling the emerging conceptions of mind and their contents that have, in recent years, come to seem irreconcilable. Post-Cartesian philosophers face the challenge of comprehending minds as natural objects possessing apparently non-natural powers of thought. The difficulty is to understand how our mental capacities, no less than our biological or chemical characteristics, might ultimately be products of our fundamental physical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521424003
• ISBN13: 9780521424004
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"