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New Perspectives on Type Identity: The Mental and the Physical - Softcover

Gozzano, Simone

 
9781107515420: New Perspectives on Type Identity: The Mental and the Physical
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1107515424 ISBN 13: 9781107515420
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

This book argues that many mental states, including such conscious states as perceptual experiences and bodily sensations, are identical with brain states.

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About the Authors

Simone Gozzano is Professor of Philosophy of Mind at the Università dell'Aquila. He is the author of four books (in Italian) on topics such as intentionality, animal minds, mental causation and consciousness. He is the co-editor, with Francesco Orilia, of Tropes and the Philosophy of Mind (2008).

Christopher S. Hill is a Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. He is the author of three books: Sensations: A Defense of Type Materialism (Cambridge, 1991), Thought and World: An Austere Account of Truth, Reference, and Semantic Correspondence (Cambridge, 2002), and Consciousness (Cambridge, 2009).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1107515424
ISBN 13 
9781107515420
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
306