A Materialist Theory of the Mind (Routledge Classics)

D. M. Armstrong,Peter Anstey

ISBN 10: 1032355417 / ISBN 13: 9781032355412

Published by Routledge 2022-10-06, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Materialist Theory of the Mind (Routledge Classics)
• Publisher: Routledge 2022-10-06
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032355417
• ISBN 13: 9781032355412
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

D. M. Armstrong's A Materialist Theory of the Mind is widely known as one of the most important defences of the view that mental states are nothing but physical states of the brain. A landmark of twentieth-century philosophy of mind, it launched the physicalist revolution in approaches to the mind and has been engaged with, debated and puzzled over ever since its first publication over fifty years ago.

Ranging over a remarkable number of topics, from behaviourism, the will and knowledge to perception, bodily sensation and introspection, Armstrong argues that mental states play a causally intermediate role between stimuli, other mental states and behavioural responses. He uses several illuminating examples to illustrate this, such as the classic case of pain.

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Peter Anstey, placing Armstrong's book in helpful philosophical and historical context.

About the Author

David Malet Armstrong was born in 1926 in Melbourne, Australia. He studied philosophy at the University of Sydney before going to Oxford, taking the recently established B. Phil. degree in 1954. He taught briefly at Birkbeck College, London, before returning to Australia to teach at the University of Melbourne. He succeeded J.L. Mackie in Anderson’s chair at Sydney in 1964, where he taught until his retirement in 1991. He died in 2014.