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.
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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