How to Solve the Mind-Body Problem (Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7, No. 4) - Softcover

Humphrey, Nicholas

  • 3.12 out of 5 stars
    8 ratings by Goodreads
 
9780907845089: How to Solve the Mind-Body Problem (Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7, No. 4)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0907845088 ISBN 13: 9780907845089
Publisher: Imprint Academic, 2000

Synopsis

The mind is the brain. Each mental state -- each hope, fear, thought -- can be identified with a particular physical state of the brain, without remainder. So argues Nicholas Humphrey in this highly readable yet scholarly essay. He offers strong support for his "identity theory" from evolution. His controversial claim is discussed and challenged in commentaries by authors such as Andy Clark (Being There, 1997), Daniel Dennett (Consciousness Explained, 1991; Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995) and Ralph Ellis (Questioning Consciousness, 1995). Humphrey rounds off the book with a response to his critics. An excellent short introduction to the mind-body problem and the study of consciousness.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Nicholas Humphrey is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences at the London School of Economics and Professor of Psychology at The New School University, New York. He is the author of Consciousness Regained, The Inner Eye, A History of the Mind, and Soul Searching.

From the Back Cover

Humphrey's account of the position of qualia in mental life is the most promising and fertile I have seen. I am especially impressed by his pivotal idea that sensation is itself a species of affect-laden intentional activity. This is a genuinely new idea with enormous appeal and explanatory potential, the full measure of which I suspect not even he has taken.
Carol Rovane

Humphrey's essay is full of intriguing and original suggestions, pointing out new directions for investigation and probing deep beneath the surface.
Robert van Gulick

I believe Humphrey's careful and progressive story, once insulated from the threat of circularity, holds out the hope of real progress in an argumentative arena depressingly close to a stalemate.
Andy Clark

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Imprint Academic
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0907845088
ISBN 13 
9780907845089
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
112
Rating
  • 3.12 out of 5 stars
    8 ratings by Goodreads