Name: philosophy of mind and cognition: an introduction, 2nd edition
Price: 139.92 GBP
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Author: david braddon-mitchell, frank jackson
ISBN: 9781405133234

portada philosophy of mind and cognition: an introduction, 2nd edition

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

wiley-blackwell

Author

david braddon-mitchell, frank jackson

Pages

344.00

ISBN

1405133236

ISBN13

9781405133234

Synopsis "philosophy of mind and cognition: an introduction, 2nd edition"

this is a fully revised and updated edition of david braddon-mitchell and frank jacksons popular and respected introduction to philosophy of mind and cognition. the revisions are designed to make the volume even more useful for teachers and students, and to keep it current, ensuring that the most recent developments in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science are brought together into a coherent, accessible whole.new material includes: a section on some of descartes famous objections to materialism along with a discussion of the objection from gödels theorem; substantial additions to the discussion of qualia including a discussion of representationalist accounts of experience and of the zombie argument; additional coverage of the view that psychology is autonomous; a new substantial chapter on connectionism and its bearing on the language of thought debate; and much more.