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Mind and body [electronic resource] / Robert Kirk

Author:
Kirk, Robert, 1933-
Published:
Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012).
Physical Description:
1 electronic text (200 p.) : digital file
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Canadian Electronic Library (Firm)
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Contents:
1. Introduction: are we just machines? -- 2. Is there something extra? -- 3. Physicalism -- 4. Some objections to physicalism -- 5. Behaviourism -- 6. Functionalism -- 7. More about thinking -- 8. More about feeling -- 9. Conclusion.
Summary:
A great deal of work in philosophy is concerned with some aspect of the complex tangle of problems and puzzles roughly labelled the mind-body problem. This book offers an introduction to this problem. It discusses mechanism - the idea that minds are machines - focusing on Searle's Chinese Room argument.
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ISBN:
9780773526730 (print)
0773526730 (bound)
0773526749 (pbk.)
9780773582828 (electronic bk.)
Note:
Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-192) and index.
Technical Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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