Consciousness, Function, and Representation, Volume 1: Collected Papers

by Ned Block

Book Overview

This volume of Ned Block's writings collects his papers on consciousness, functionalism, and representationism. A number of these papers treat the significance of the multiple realizability of mental states for the mind-body problem--a theme that has concerned Block since the 1960s. One paper on this topic considers the upshot for the mind-body problem of the possibility of a robot that is functionally like us but physically different--as is Commander...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262524627
• ISBN13: 9780262524629
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher