Mind and Consciousness: 5 Questions - Softcover

 
9788792130105: Mind and Consciousness: 5 Questions
Softcover
ISBN 10: 8792130100 ISBN 13: 9788792130105
Publisher: Automatic Press / VIP, 2009

Synopsis

Debates concerning the nature of mind and consciousness are active and ongoing, with implications for philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence and the neurosciences. This book collects interviews with some of the foremost philosophers of mind, focusing on open questions, promising projects, and their own intellectual histories. The result is a rich glimpse of the contemporary debate through some of the people who make it what it is. Interviews with Lynne Rudder Baker, David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, Fred Dretske, Owen Flanagan, Samuel Guttenplan, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, John Heil, Terence Horgan, Douglas Hofstadter, Frank Jackson, Jaegwon Kim, William Lycan, Alva Noë, Hilary Putnam, David Rosenthal, John Searle, Steven Stich, Galen Strawson, Michael Tye.

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About the Author

Patrick Grim is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. He is author of The Incomplete Universe, co-author of The Philosophical Computer, editor of Mind and Consciousness: 5 Questions, and founding co-editor of over 25 volumes of the Philosopher's Annual. Grim has produced two lecture series with the Teaching Company: Questions of Value and Philosophy of Mind.

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Publisher
Automatic Press / VIP
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
8792130100
ISBN 13 
9788792130105
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
236
Editor
Grim Patrick