Matter and Sense - A Critique of Contemporary Materialism

Informationen zum Autor Howard Robinson, a native Coloradan, was educated at Brigham Young University and at the State University of New York. He has been a teacher, a market research analyst, a regional sales representative, and a corporate manager. He was an employee of the LDS Church for twenty-seven years in various Regional and Area offices. In connection with these assignments, he and his family spent nearly ten years living overseas in Ecuador, Peru, Mexico and the Philippines. He and his wife, Maryetta, have had four children and (to date) sixteen grandchildren. He continues to live in the city of Jacob Martin. Klappentext Robinson presents a very forceful critique of the modern forms that materialism has taken. Zusammenfassung The assumption of materialism! in its many forms! Howard Robinson believes is false. In his book he presents a very forceful critique of the modern forms that materialism has taken. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 1. The materialist's problem and some non-reductive solutions; 2. Supervenience and reduction; 3. Behaviourism and stimulus materialism; 4. The causal theory of the mind; 5. The disappearance theory; 6. Reductive theories of perception; 7. Matter: turning the tables; Conclusion; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Robinson Howard, Howard Robinson, Robinson Howard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521114745
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11474-5
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Logic, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism