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| - ''... an immensely well-informed an up-to-date discussion... Replete with controversial and original insights, it is sure to stimulate the interest of students and specialists alike.' THES' -
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| Description | | - Long-awaited book by an outstanding philosopher of mind; Tim Crane is Director of the Philosophy Programme at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
- While covering all the key topics, Crane offers an original perspective on the problems he discusses
- Emphasises the importance of questions concerning the nature of mental phenomena and discusses the mind-body problem in this context
- Short and accessible
| This accessible and lively introduction considers the main problems and debates in contemporary philosophy of mind. The central theme of the book is that intentionality, or the mind's direction upon its objects - sometimes described as the mind's power to represent or be 'about' things - is the essential feature of all mental phenomena. Crane engages in a subsidiary theme, the mind-body
problem, asking to what extent a physicalist reductive account of mental phenomena is possible, or even necessary. Proposing an original and unified theory of all the phenomena of mind, Crane opposes those currently popular conceptions of the mind which divide mental phenomena into two very different kinds, the intentional and the qualitative. In the light of his theory, Crane gives an account of
the main problems of the philosophy of mind: the mind-body problem, the problem of intentionality (or mental representation), the problem of consciousness, and the problem of perception. He also attempts to give solutions to these problems.
This book provides an fresh and engaging exploration of those questions at the centre of the philosophy of mind in an accessible and lucid style which will
appeal to all students, including those new to the subject.
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Readership: Undergraduates studying the philosophy of mind. Also the interested general reader.
| Contents |
Introduction: What is the philosophy of mind?
1.
Mind
2.
Body
3.
Consciousness
4.
Thought
5.
Perception
Bibliography
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Tim Crane, Director of the Philosophy Programme at the School of Advanced Study,, University of London
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