Elmer Sprague

Persons And Their Minds (eBook, PDF)

A Philosophical Investigation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book compares the conflicting claims of mindism and personism and argues for placing persons at the center of philosophy of mind. It examines functionalism as it is presented in Fodor's early work and investigates various attempts to nullify the concept of person.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429966941
• Artikelnr.: 54108868

Autorenporträt

Elmer Sprague is professor emeritus at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, where he taught philosophy for 44 years. He has a B.A. from the University of Nebraska, and a B.A. and D.Phil. from Oxford. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1948-51), and was the Paul Robert and Jean Shuman Hanna Professor of Philosophy at Hamline University (1987). His previous publications include articles on Ryle and Hume, and the book, Metaphysical Thinking.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Mindism and Personism
Mindism and Personism
Descartes's Concept of Mind
Un
Locke
ing the Mind
A Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Mind
Ryle, Mind, and Persons
Wittgenstein and Ryle
Part II Personism and Mindism
Mental Events?
Functionalism
Giving Persons a Hard Time
Consciousness