John Wisdom

Problems of Mind and Matter

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Produktbeschreibung

Professor Wisdom gives an elementary introduction to the applications in philosophy of the analytical method.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9780521091978
• ISBN-10: 0521091977
• Artikelnr.: 26151820

Inhaltsangabe

Prefaces
Part I. Introduction: 1. Analysis and speculative philosophy
2. First examples of analysis
3. Analytic vocabulary
Part I. Body and Mind: 1. The analytic problem about ownership
2. Distinction between mental and nervous events
3. Denial of mental events - materialism
4. Correlations between bodily and mental events
5. Do bodily events occasion mental events and vice versa?
6. Do bodily events produce mental events
7. Ownership
8. Freewill
Part II. Cognition: 9. perception
10. Knowledge of material things
11. Judgment and truth
Appendix
Index.