Philosophy of Mind: The Basics - The Basics

List of contents

1. Mind and Mentality 2. Dualism 3. Physicalism 4. Functionalism 5. Machine Minds 6. The Future of the Mind Glossary Bibliography Index

About the author

Amy Kind is Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, USA. She is editor of Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (volume six of The History of the Philosophy of Mind, Routledge 2016) and of The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination (2016). She has also authored the introductory textbook Persons and Personal Identity (2015).

Summary

Philosophy of Mind: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to the fundamental philosophical questions and theories about the mind.

Additional text

"This is an excellent book: very clear, very accessible for undergrads or even high-school students, and it manages to achieve this without dumbing down the core ideas too much. It is by far the best intro to philosophy of mind I have ever read." - Bence Nanay, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Product details

• Authors: Amy Kind, Amy (Claremont Mckenna College Kind, Kind Amy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781138807815
• ISBN: 978-1-138-80781-5
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: BASICS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy of Mind