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1 online resource (206 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I Mindism and Personism; 1 Mindism and Personism; Mindism; Personism; 2 Descartes's Concept of Mind; Body and Mind; Mind as a Distinct Thing; Learning to Use the Word Mind; Other Minds; Human Beings and Humanlike Machines; Human Beings and Animals; 3 Un-Locke-ing the Mind; Ideas; The Mind; Thinking; Knowledge; Inside/Outside; Ideas and Words; Conclusion; 4 A Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Mind; Meaning; Language-Games and Language; Rules; Mental Processes; Other Minds; Personal Experience/Private Objects |
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Private LanguageConclusion; 5 Ryle, Mind, and Persons; More About Persons; Opposing Mind-Body Dualism; Objections; Mind and Brain; 6 Wittgenstein and Ryle; Wittgenstein; Ryle; Wittgenstein and Ryle; Part II Personism and Mindism; 7 Mental Events?; 8 Functionalism; An Overview; Fodor's Functionalism; Objections; Finding the ""Mental; Functionalism and Personism; 9 Giving Persons a Hard Time; Buddhism's Not-Self; Hume's Self; Parfit's Persons; Dennett's Intentional Systems; 10 Consciousness; The Mystery; Searle's Discovery; Brains in the News; Persons and Moral Consciousness; Envoi |
| Summary |
Persons and Their Minds compares the conflicting claims of mindism and personism and argues for placing persons at the center of philosophy of mind. Mindism stems from Descartes, takes the spectator stance, and makes the mind the subject of mental verbs such as?know,??think,? and?believe.? Personism stems from Wittgenstein and Ryle, takes the agent stance, and restores persons to their proper place as subjects of mental verbs. Employing lessons taught by Wittgenstein and Ryle, the book offers a running criticism of mindism as it appears in the work of Descartes, Locke, Davidson, Fodor, Hume, Parfit, Dennett, Searle, McGinn, Flanagan, Chalmers, and Baars, and demonstrates personism's ability to resist various forms of mindism. Intended for upper-level or graduate students of philosophy, Persons and Their Minds should also interest psychologists, psychotherapists, and other professionals who use philosophy of mind in their work |
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Philosophy of mind.
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Thought and thinking.
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Psychology -- Psychology
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Philosophy -- Mind and Body
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Bewusstsein
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Philosophie
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Thinking
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epistemology.
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thinking.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Philosophy of mind.
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Thought and thinking.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429978029 |
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0429978022 |
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