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Title:
Philosophy of mind : a very short introduction
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2022
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022

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Physical Description:
xxi, 131 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 18 cm
ISBN:
9780198809074
Abstract:
Is the neurophysiology of pain all there is to pain? How do words and mental pictures come to represent things in the world? Do computers think, and if so, are their thought processes significantly similar to our thought processes? Or is there something distinctive about human thought that precludes replication in a computer? These are some of the puzzles that motivate the philosophical discipline called.
Contents:
Dualism -- Behaviourism -- Physicalism -- Intentionality -- Consiousness -- Emotions -- Digital minds.
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Language:
English
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