Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem: A Reader

by Robert J. Howell and Torin Alter

Book Overview

Over the past three decades, the challenge that conscious experience poses to physicalism--the widely held view that the universe is a completely physical system--has provoked a growing debate in philosophy of mind studies and given rise to a great deal of literature on the subject.

Ideal for courses in consciousness and the philosophy of mind, Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem: A Reader presents thirty-six classic and contemporary readings,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199739242
• ISBN13: 9780199739240
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.1"