Screen LibraryBrain, mind, and human behavior in contemporary cognitive science：critical assessments of the philosophy of psychology
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Edwin Mellen Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Lewiston, N.Y. |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xx, 230 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780773453159 0773453156 |
| Index Number: | B84 |
| CLC: |
B84-02 B842.1 |
| Call Number: | B84-02/C855 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-228) and index. Neural metaphysics -- Technical and ordinary language -- The Cartesian heritage and neuroscience -- Problems with "information" -- The physical and "symbolic" environments -- The storage conception of memory -- Neuralizing "voluntariness" -- Seeing colors -- Materialist conceptions of mind : a reappraisal -- The origins of materialism in the philosophy of mind -- Problems of the materialist theory of mind -- The "mental" and the "physical" -- Neural causation and freedom of action -- The problem of determinism -- Reconceiving Kornhuber-Libet -- "Folk psychology" and freedom -- Causes and rules -- On choosing -- Consciousness : the last mystery -- Human beings and "physical systems" -- "In the mind" does not signify : in psychology's remit -- Phenomenology of nothing -- No explanatory gap to bridge -- On "qualia" and zombies -- Memory : explaining capacities versus -- Explaining performances -- Dissolving the "projection problem" -- Sources of the problem -- Fodor's problems -- Can the problem be dissolved? -- Muddles about learning -- Fetishising "syntax" -- Intentional states and the "theory of mind" theory -- Extended mind. |