The Peripheral Mind is the first monograph to discuss the philosophical relevance of the Peripheral Nervous System. It combines conceptual analysis, discussion of neuroscientific data, philosophical speculation, and first-person phenomenological accounts to solve a wide range of extant problems in the philosophy of mind.
The Peripheral Mind is the first monograph to discuss the philosophical relevance of the Peripheral Nervous System. It combines conceptual analysis, discussion of neuroscientific data, philosophical speculation, and first-person phenomenological accounts to solve a wide range of extant problems in the philosophy of mind.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
István Aranyosi was born in Sighet/Máramarossziget, in the north of Transylvania, in 1975. He studied philosophy in Budapest, at the Central European University, where he obtained his PhD in 2005. In 2006-2007 he was a fellow at the Centre for Consciousness, The Australian National University. He is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bilkent University, Ankara. In 2012 he obtained Honorable Mention for his essay "A new argument for mind-brain identity" at the American Philosophical Association's prestigious biennial Article Prize.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter I: Margins of Me: a Personal Story PART 1: MINDS AND NERVES Chapter II: A Philosophical Hypothesis II.1 PMH as a philosophical hypothesis II.2 PMH and the case of visual awareness research II.3 Causal versus constitutive contribution Chapter III: Return of the C fibers, or Philosophers' Lack of Nerve III.1 Well, maybe the mind is the brain ... somewhere III.2 Folk neuroscience and the philosophy of mind III.3 Nervous systems and closet sunsum theory Chapter IV: Toward a Well-Innervated Philosophy of Mind IV.1 'It's just cables!' IV.2 Functionalist troubles? The mad pain problem The problem of pseudo-normal vision The China-brain problem The triviality problem PART 2: BOUNDS OF MIND Chapter V: Semantic Externalism V.1 Twin Earth V.2 Anti-Narrowness and Determination V.3 Anti-wideness V.4 Skinternalism: an Anti-Internalist Individualism V.5 Some further issues Chapter VI: Mind Extended VI.1 Allegedly extended processes VI.2 Allegedly extended states PART 3: MIND EMBODIED Chapter VII: Embodiment and the Peripheral Mind VII.1 'Fingers crossed for the embodied mind!' VII.2 Phenomenal embodiment and innervation VII.3 Against proper disembodiment Chapter VIII: Against Action as Constitutive of Mind VIII.1 Embodied central processing VIII.2 The conceptual role of the Neuromuscular Junction VIII. 3 A brief critique of action-based (sensorimotor) theories PART 4: MIND AND ETHICS Chapter IX: Issues in Neuroethics IX.1 Abortion: Thick potentiality IX.2 Amputation: Peripheral precedence Chapter X: Concluding Remarks References Name Index Topic Index
Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter I: Margins of Me: a Personal Story PART 1: MINDS AND NERVES Chapter II: A Philosophical Hypothesis II.1 PMH as a philosophical hypothesis II.2 PMH and the case of visual awareness research II.3 Causal versus constitutive contribution Chapter III: Return of the C fibers, or Philosophers' Lack of Nerve III.1 Well, maybe the mind is the brain ... somewhere III.2 Folk neuroscience and the philosophy of mind III.3 Nervous systems and closet sunsum theory Chapter IV: Toward a Well-Innervated Philosophy of Mind IV.1 'It's just cables!' IV.2 Functionalist troubles? The mad pain problem The problem of pseudo-normal vision The China-brain problem The triviality problem PART 2: BOUNDS OF MIND Chapter V: Semantic Externalism V.1 Twin Earth V.2 Anti-Narrowness and Determination V.3 Anti-wideness V.4 Skinternalism: an Anti-Internalist Individualism V.5 Some further issues Chapter VI: Mind Extended VI.1 Allegedly extended processes VI.2 Allegedly extended states PART 3: MIND EMBODIED Chapter VII: Embodiment and the Peripheral Mind VII.1 'Fingers crossed for the embodied mind!' VII.2 Phenomenal embodiment and innervation VII.3 Against proper disembodiment Chapter VIII: Against Action as Constitutive of Mind VIII.1 Embodied central processing VIII.2 The conceptual role of the Neuromuscular Junction VIII. 3 A brief critique of action-based (sensorimotor) theories PART 4: MIND AND ETHICS Chapter IX: Issues in Neuroethics IX.1 Abortion: Thick potentiality IX.2 Amputation: Peripheral precedence Chapter X: Concluding Remarks References Name Index Topic Index
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