Matters of Mind: Consciousness, Reason and Nature

ISBN-13: 9780415238007 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 176 str.

Scott Sturgeon

Opis

This text covers topical areas in the mind-body problem. It shows how the problem has changed from the earlier theories of reduction to the dominant empirical cases for materialism. The author puts forward the argument that most positions are overdrawn, and that most hard-line views about materialism and dualism are unfounded. The various debates surrounding the mind-body problem, including visual experience, consciousness, content and reason, reliabilism and the problem of zombies and ghosts are also analyzed. The book should appeal to those interested in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and cognitive science

Recenzje

The six chapters of this well-written book can be read separately, or as a unity leading to Sturgeon's "Wait-and-See view" in the mind-body debate.' - Journal of Consciousness Studies

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Visual Experience 2. Explaining Qualia 3. Content and Warrant 4. Warrant and Reliability 5. Zombies and Ghosts 6. Physicalims and Overdetermination

O autorze

Scott Sturgeon is Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.