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Between the Mind and the Brain, Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - N.S. 12, Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - New Series 12
ISBN/EAN: 9783110328547
Umbreit-Nr.: 4887620
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 219 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 22.07.2009
Auflage: 1/2009
- Zusatztext
- The investigation of the mind has been one of the major concerns of our philosophical tradition and it still is a dominant subject in modern philosophy as well as in science. Many philosophers in the scientific tradition want to solve the "puzzles of the mind". But many philosophers in the very same tradition do regard these puzzles as puzzles of the brain. So, whilst the former think of the mental as something of its own kind, the latter deny that philosophy of mind has to do with anything else but the brain. And then there are those who think that reduction is the way to go: maybe the mental is brain-dependent and hence reducible to the physical, in some way. This volume collects contributions comprising all those points of view, including articles by William Bechtel, Jerry Fodor, Jaegwon Kim, Joëlle Proust and Patrick Suppes.
- Kurztext
- Publications of the series include the official proceedings of the ALWS-conferences and of their special workshops. Theseries is open also for other high-quality publications, especially on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and its influence on contemporary systematic philosophy.