The Nature Of Mind

Author : Peter Carruthers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134422210

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The Nature of the Mind by Peter Carruthers Pdf

The Nature of the Mind is a comprehensive and lucid introduction to major themes in the philosophy of mind. It carefully explores the conflicting positions that have arisen within the debate and locates the arguments within their context. It is designed for newcomers to the subject and assumes no previous knowledge of the philosophy of mind. Clearly written and rigorously presented, this book is ideal for use in undergraduate courses in the philosophy of mind. Main topics covered include: * the problem of other minds * the dualist/physicalist debate * the nature of personal identity and survival * mental-state concepts The book closes with a number of pointers towards more advanced work in the subject. Study questions and suggestions for further reading are provided at the end of each chapter. The Nature of the Mind is based on Peter Carruthers' book, Introducing Persons, also published by Routledge (1986).

Author : Paul M. Churchland
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262531062

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A Neurocomputational Perspective by Paul M. Churchland Pdf

"A Bradford book."Includes index. Bibliography: p. [305]-313.

Author : David Malet Armstrong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015003849893

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The Nature of Mind, and Other Essays by David Malet Armstrong Pdf

Author : Dalai Lama,Khonton Peljor Lhundrub,Jose Ignacio Cabezon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780861716296

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Meditation on the Nature of Mind by Dalai Lama,Khonton Peljor Lhundrub,Jose Ignacio Cabezon Pdf

"We all have the same human mind - each and every one of us has the same potential. Our surroundings and so forth are important, but the nature of mind itself is more important... To live a happy and joyful life, we must take care of our minds." - His Holiness the Dalai Lama At the heart of this book is The Wish-Fulfilling Jewel of the Oral Tradition, an accessible and nonsectarian treatise on penetrating the nature of mind by Khonton Peljor Lhundrub, a teacher of the Fifth Dalai Lama. His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama's broad-ranging overview of this work insightfully distills some of the most central themes of Buddhism: why the mind is so essential to the tradition, what distinguishes the levels of consciousness, and how different schools of Tibetan Buddhism elaborate those distinctions. Profound and erudite, it brings the reader closer to a fresh and direct experience of Buddhism's central truths. Along with his lucid translations, Jose Cabezon provides an introduction to the root text and presentations of the life and works of Khonton Rinpoche, all richly annotated.

Author : J. R. Smythies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317579564

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Brain and Mind by J. R. Smythies Pdf

Presenting some modern views on the problem of the nature of mind and its relationship to the brain, this book, published in 1965, brings together contributors from various disciplines which are affected by this issue. Coming from different philosophical outlooks as well as subjects, these contributors also comment on each other’s’ chapters with a view of developing thought on the approaches to the problem. The theory of mind-brain relationship is vital to human interest and has been in debate throughout western thought over centuries, split mainly into dualist and monistic theories. These discussions had and still have wide impact philosophy, psychology, religion and cosmology, among other areas.

Author : David M. Rosenthal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0195046714

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The Nature of Mind by David M. Rosenthal Pdf

Since the dawn of history philosophers have speculated about the nature of mind. What kind of thing is the mind? How do mental processes fit with the rest of the natural order? Is the mind something different and separate from the body? What is distinctive of the various kinds of mental phenomena such as thinking, feeling, sensing, and consciousness? Addressing these and related problems, this anthology provides a framework for understanding mental functioning. The readings are grouped into five major sections: General Problems about Mind, Self and Other, Mind and Body, The Nature of Mind, and Psychological Explanation. Each section begins with an introduction that discusses the issues and problems that arise in the various selections and shows how each author approaches them. In addition, a general introduction gives a concise overview of the subject and provides a historical context for the readings. Representative works of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thinkers such as Descartes, Locke, and Reid provide a solid foundation for the copious selections from contemporary philosophers that follow, among them articles by Fodor, Dennett, Nagel, Putnam, Davidson, Searle, Ryle, Strawson, Burge, Chisholm, Rorty, and Sellars. With sixty-two selections in all, The Nature of Mind is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in this central philosophical topic.

Author : Thomas Nagel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199919758

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Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel Pdf

The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic. In spite of the great achievements of the physical sciences, reductive materialism is a world view ripe for displacement. Nagel shows that to recognize its limits is the first step in looking for alternatives, or at least in being open to their possibility.

Author : Sebastian Watzl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191633003

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Structuring Mind by Sebastian Watzl Pdf

What is attention? How does attention shape consciousness? In an approach that engages with foundational topics in the philosophy of mind, the theory of action, psychology, and the neurosciences this book provides a unified and comprehensive answer to both questions. Sebastian Watzl shows that attention is a central structural feature of the mind. The first half of the book provides an account of the nature of attention. Attention is prioritizing, it consists in regulating priority structures. Attention is not another element of the mind, but constituted by structures that organize, integrate, and coordinate the parts of our mind. Attention thus integrates the perceptual and intellectual, the cognitive and motivational, and the epistemic and practical. The second half of the book concerns the relationship between attention and consciousness. Watzl argues that attentional structure shapes consciousness into what is central and what is peripheral. The center-periphery structure of consciousness cannot be reduced to the structure of how the world appears to the subject. What it is like for us thus goes beyond the way the world appears to us. On this basis, a new view of consciousness is offered. In each conscious experience we actively take a stance on the world we appear to encounter. It is in this sense that our conscious experience is our subjective perspective.

Author : C. B. Martin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191614606

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The Mind in Nature by C. B. Martin Pdf

What are the most fundamental features of the world? Do minds stand outside the natural order? Is a unified picture of mental and physical reality possible? The Mind in Nature provides a staunchly realist account of the world as a unified system incorporating both the mental and the physical. C. B. Martin, an original and influential exponent of 'ontologically serious' metaphysics, echoes Locke's dictum that 'all things that exist are only particulars', and argues that properties are powerful qualities. He also spells out the implications of this view for philosophical conceptions of causation, intentionality, consciousness, and the mind-body problem. Martin emphasizes the importance of non-conscious 'vegetative' systems, which provide clear examples of intentionality in the form of representational use. The slide from representational use to consciousness involves a change in the material of use, but not the form of representation. A concluding chapter provides an argument for the view that an ontology of particular substances and properties leads ineluctably to monism: the bus we board with Locke takes us directly to the world of Spinoza and Einstein. Along the way, we are led to understand the nature of minds and conscious states of mind in a way that avoids both reductionism (the idea that mental is reducible to the non-mental) and dualism (the idea that mental substances or properties differ dramatically from physical substances and properties).

Author : Ole Nydahl
Publisher : Blue Dolphin Pub
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Buddhism and culture
ISBN : 0931892589

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Teachings on the Nature of Mind by Ole Nydahl Pdf

A basic introduction to Buddhism, presenting the essential teachings of the Buddha, his life and times, and his great discovery of the Four Noble Truths.

Author : Roger Duncan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429775758

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Nature in Mind by Roger Duncan Pdf

Nature in Mind explores a kind of madness at the core of the developed world that has separated the growth of human cultural systems from the destruction of the environment on which these systems depend. It is now becoming increasingly clear that the contemporary Western lifestyle not only has a negative impact on the ecosystems of the earth but also has a detrimental effect on human health and psychological wellbeing. The book compares the work of Gregory Bateson and Henry Corbin and shows how an understanding of the "imaginal world" within the practice of systemic psychotherapy and ecopsychology could provide a language shared by both nature and mind. This book argues the case for bringing nature-based work into mainstream education and therapy practice. It is an invitation to radically reimagine the relationship between humans and nature and provides a practical and epistemological guide to reconnecting human thinking with the ecosystems of the earth.

Author : Kelsang Gyatso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0948006544

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Understanding the Mind by Kelsang Gyatso Pdf

What is the mind and how does it work?; how can an understanding of our mind be applied to our everyday life? This book provides a practical explanation of the mind in a combination of profound philosophical exploration and practical psychology.

Author : Peter Godfrey-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521646243

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Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature by Peter Godfrey-Smith Pdf

The book examines the relationship between intelligence and environmental complexity.

Author : Roger Smith
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781780231181

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Between Mind and Nature by Roger Smith Pdf

From William James to Ivan Pavlov, John Dewey to Sigmund Freud, the Würzburg School to the Chicago School, psychology has spanned centuries and continents. Today, the word is an all-encompassing name for a bewildering range of beliefs about what psychologists know and do, and this intrinsic interest in knowing how our own and other’s minds work has a story as fascinating and complex as humankind itself. In Between Mind and Nature, Roger Smith explores the history of psychology and its relation to religion, politics, the arts, social life, the natural sciences, and technology. Considering the big questions bound up in the history of psychology, Smith investigates what human nature is, whether psychology can provide answers to human problems, and whether the notion of being an individual depends on social and historical conditions. He also asks whether a method of rational thinking exists outside the realm of natural science. Posing important questions about the value and direction of psychology today, Between Mind and Nature is a cogently written book for those wishing to know more about the quest for knowledge of the mind.

Author : Gregory Bateson
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 1572734345

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Mind and Nature by Gregory Bateson Pdf

A re-issue of Gregory Bateson's classic work. It summarizes Bateson's thinking on the subject of the patterns that connect living beings to each other and to their environment.