The science of the mind

• Tác giả: Owen J Flanagan
• ISBN-10: 0262272792
• ISBN-10: 0585023468
• ISBN-13: 978-0262272797
• ISBN-13: 978-0585023465
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 170 Ethics (Moral philosophy)
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1991.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (xiv, 424 pages)
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 251385
• Chủ đề: 1. Philosophy of mind--History; 2. Psychology--Philosophy

Tóm tắt

Consciousness emerges as the key topic in this second edition of Owen Flanagan's popular introduction to cognitive science and the philosophy of psychology. in a new chapter Flanagan develops a neurophilosophical theory of subjective mental life. He brings recent developments in the theory of neuronal group selection and connectionism to bear on the problems of the evolution of consciousness, qualia, the unique first-personal aspects of consciousness, the causal role of consciousness, and the function and development of the sense of personal identity. He has also substantially revised the chapter on cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence to incorporate recent discussions of connectionism and parallel distributed processing.