MATTER AND CONSCIOUSNESS
by Churchland, Paul
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- ISBN 10
- 0262530503
- ISBN 13
- 9780262530507
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MIT Press. Good;. 1986. Softcover. 0262530503 . Cover has moderate edge/corner wear, some creasing. About the first 1/3 of pages have some highlighting, rest of pages are clean and unmarked. B/w illus. 164 pages. In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland clearly presents the advantages and disadvantages of such difficult issues in philosophy of mind as behaviorism, reductive materialism, functionalism, and eliminative materialism. Churchland organizes and clarifies the new theoretical and experimental results of the natural sciences for a wider philosophical audience, observing that this research bears directly on questions concerning the basic elements of cognitive activity and their implementation in real physical systems. (How is it, he asks, that living creatures perform some cognitive tasks so swiftly and easily, where computers do them only badly or not at all? ) Most significant for philosophy, Churchland asserts, is the support these results tend to give to the reductive and the eliminative versions of materialism. Paul M. Churchland is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. (os); 8vo .
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- Riverwood's Books (CA)
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- Title
- MATTER AND CONSCIOUSNESS
- Author
- Churchland, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good;
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- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0262530503
- ISBN 13
- 9780262530507
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- 0262530503
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- Psychology; Philosophy;
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