Philosophy of Mind and Cognition: An Introduction - Hardcover

Braddon-Mitchell, David; Jackson, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405133236 ISBN 13: 9781405133234

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006

Synopsis

David Braddon-Mitchell and Frank Jackson’s popular introduction to philosophy of mind and cognition is now available in a fully revised and updated edition.

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• Ensures that the most recent developments in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science are brought together into a coherent, accessible whole.
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• Revisions respond to feedback from students and teachers and make the volume even more useful for courses.
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• New material includes: a section on Descartes’ famous objection to materialism; extended treatment of connectionism; coverage of the view that psychology is autonomous; fuller discussion of recent debates over phenomenal experience; and much more.

About this title

About the Author

David Braddon-Mitchell is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He has published widely in philosophy of mind and metaphysics.

Frank Jackson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He is the author of Conditionals (Blackwell, 1987) and his John Locke Lectures were published as From Metaphysics to Ethics in 1998.

From the Back Cover

This is a fully revised and updated edition of David Braddon-Mitchell and Frank Jackson’s popular and respected introduction to philosophy of mind and cognition. The revisions are designed to make the volume even more useful for teachers and students, and to keep it current, ensuring that the most recent developments in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science are brought together into a coherent, accessible whole.

New material includes: a section on some of Descartes’ famous objections to materialism along with a discussion of the objection from Gödel’s theorem; substantial additions to the discussion of qualia including a discussion of representationalist accounts of experience and of the zombie argument; additional coverage of the view that psychology is autonomous; a new substantial chapter on connectionism and its bearing on the language of thought debate; and much more.

New material includes: a section on some of Descartes’ famous objections to materialism along with a discussion of the objection from Gödel’s theorem; substantial additions to the discussion of qualia including a discussion of representationalist accounts of experience and of the zombie argument; additional coverage of the view that psychology is autonomous; a new substantial chapter on connectionism and its bearing on the language of thought debate; and much more.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405133236
• ISBN 13: 9781405133234
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 340