Epiphenomenal Mind: An Integrated Outlook on Sensations, Beliefs, and Pleasure

ISBN-13: 9780367732882 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 202 str.

William S. Robinson

Opis

This book defends an epiphenomenalist account of philosophy of mind. It builds on the author’s previous work by moving beyond a discussion of sensations to apply an epiphenomenalist outlook to other aspects of mental causation such as beliefs, desires, pleasure, and displeasure.

Recenzje

"Any philosopher interested in the philosophy of mind should read William S. Robinson's book. It is a clear, thoughtful, well-argued, and sophisticated discussion of how to understand our talk about such mental states as sensation, belief, and pleasure. Robinson takes the arguments where they lead him, and they lead him to provide a quite different analysis of sensation from the one he offers of belief and other intentional states." – Richard Fumerton in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Spis treści

Preface

1. Sensations

2. Developing Dualism

3. Epiphenomenalism

4. Experience as Such

5. Mental Causation

6. Believing and Desiring

7. Robots

8. Unconscious Processing

9. Valence

10. Epilogue

O autorze

William S. Robinson is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Iowa State University. He writes on a variety of topics in philosophy of mind. Previous books include Understanding Phenomenal Consciousness (2004) and, for a more general audience, Your Brain and You (2010).