Natural minds / Thomas W. Polger.

In Natural Minds Thomas Polger advocates, and defends, the philosophical theory that mind equals brain--that sensations are brain processes--and in doing so brings the mind-brain identity theory back into the philosophical debate about consciousness. The version of identity theory that Polger advoca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Polger, Thomas W.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Subjects:	Mind-brain identity theory. PHILOSOPHY > Mind & Body. Mind-brain identity theory Philosophy. Philosophy & Religion.
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Table of Contents:

1. Minds, Brains, and Multiple Realizability
2. The Illusion of Contingent Identity
3. Varieties of Functionalism
4. Realization and Generic Functionalism
5. Functional Realizations
6. Functional Properties and Mechanistic Explanations
7. Dennett's Challenge
8. Minds, Brains, and Persons.

Natural minds / Thomas W. Polger.

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