The Enigma of the Mind
The Mind-Body Problem in Contemporary Thought
- Author: Sergio Moravia, Università degli Studi, Florence
- Translator: Scott Staton
- Date Published: January 1995
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521405577
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Sergio Moravia's The Enigma of the Mind (originally published in Italian as L'enigma della mente) offers a broad and lucid critical and historical survey of one of the fundamental debates in the philosophy of mind - the relationship of mind and body. This problem continues to raise deep questions concerning the nature of man. The book has two central aims. First, Professor Moravia sketches the major recent contributions to the mind/body problem from philosophers of mind. Having established this framework Professor Moravia pursues his second aim - the articulation of a particular interpretation of the mental and the mind-body problem. The book's detailed and systematic treatment of this fundamental philosophical issue make it ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in epistemology and the philosophy of mind. It should also prove provocative reading for psychologists and cognitive scientists.
Read more- Clear, accessible account of all recent work on the mind/body problem makes this suitable as a course book
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- Date Published: January 1995
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521405577
- length: 336 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 153 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.47kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
The enigma of the mind: introduction to a metaphor
1. Toward a physical science of the mental
2. The apogee of physicalism
3. The obscure relationship
4. Psychology as alchemy
5. The mind as function
6. The mind as property and as event
7. The mind as language
8. Speaking in many different ways
9. The mind as mode of subjective experience
10. The mind as 'subject' and as 'being-in-the-world'
Appendix: The mental as intentional/'personal' emergence.
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