Theories of the Mind: A Compelling Investigation into the Ideas of Leading Philosophers on the Nature of the Mind and Its Relationship to the Body - Softcover

Priest, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395623383 ISBN 13: 9780395623381

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1992

Synopsis

Discusses the philosophical question concerning the exact relationship between the body and the mind and provides analysis of conflicting theories

About this title

From Library Journal:

The problem of mind and self remains central to both philosophy and cognitive science. Ranging with ease and facility from the dualisms of Plato and Descartes to the phenomenology of Brentano and Husserl, Priest examines seven concepts of mind as they emerge from various treatments of the mind-body problem. In an argument similar to that in Amelie Oksenberg Rorty's Mind in Action ( LJ 11/1/88), he tries to dissolve the mind-body dichotomy by conceiving mind as that which has the capacity to think. Defining "thinking" as an activity of the brain, he circumvents logical and ontological problems related to mind-body interface. A lucid and persuasive argument, this book offers a valuable corrective to the materialism of Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained (Little, Brown, 1991) . Recommended for lay readers as well as scholars.
- T.L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, Ga.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0395623383
• ISBN 13: 9780395623381
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 235