The Nature of Mind

by David M. Rosenthal

Book Overview

Since the dawn of history philosophers have speculated about the nature of mind. What kind of thing is the mind? How do mental processes fit with the rest of the natural order? Is the mind something different and separate from the body? What is distinctive of the various kinds of mental phenomena such as thinking, feeling, sensing, and consciousness? Addressing these and related problems, this anthology provides a framework for understanding mental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195046714
• ISBN13: 9780195046717
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Very good collection

This collection of articles is one of the best available in phil. of mind. Its range and completeness is amazing, starting from selections of Descartes, Locke and Reid up to papers on eliminative materialism and machine functionalism. I'd definitely recommend this for anybody willing to get serious about the subject. If you haven't already studied the papers contained here, do it, for they 're absolutely fundamental to our current understanding of the problems in the phil. of mind.