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

Gozzano, Simone

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).

Edition details

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