History of the Mind-Body Problem

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-415-40831-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

Reihe: London Studies in the History of Philosophy

History of the Mind-Body Problem is a collection of new essays by leading contributors on the various concerns that have given rise to and informed the mind-body problem in philosophy.
The essays in this stellar collection discuss famous philosophers such as Aristotle, Aquinas and Descartes and cover the subjects of the origins of the qualia and intentionality.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crane, Tim

Patterson, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction, Tim Crane and Sarah Patterson 2. The Musical, the Magical and the Mathematical Soul, Rae Langton 3. The Soul's Relation to the Body: Thomas Aquinas, Siger of Brabant and the Parisian debate on Monopsychism, M.W.F.Stone 4. How Cartesian was Descartes?, Sarah Patterson 5. The Emergence of the Cartesian Mind, Susan James 6. Intentionality or Phenomenology? Descartes on the Objects of Thought, John Cottingham 7. 'A tumbling-ground for whimsies'? The History and Contemporary role of the Conscious/Unconscious Contrast, Neil Manson 8. The Origins of Qualia, Tim Crane 9. Beyond Dispute: Sense-Datea, Intentionality and the Mind-Body Problem, M.G.F.Martin.

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Crane teaches Philosophy at University College London, UK. Sarah Patterson teaches Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London, UK.