Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, An: Souls, Science and Human Beings (PHILOSOPHY, PHILOSOPHY OF MIND)

Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. New. 2001. Paperback. 0333961226 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 157 pages - -- Interior text is clean, tight, and unmarked. Pages are intact and tight to the spine. From the back cover: "This book introduces a range of central issues in the philosophy of mind in a way that reflects both the place that these issues have occupied in Modern Philosophy - the European and (more centrally) the English-speaking tradition in philosophy since the time of Rene Descartes - and the transforming insights of the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The book revolves around three broad approaches to the question 'What is a person? ' While defenders of the first view argue that what I essentially am is a non-material 'mind' that is quite distinct from the bodily human being, current philosophical thinking is dominated by the idea that the description of a person that is offered by physical science is the fundamental truth about what she is. Through detailed criticism of these approaches David Cockburn suggests that to attain philosophical clarity we must give a fundamental place to the idea that the person is the 'human being' - the bodily being that we encounter in our everyday interactions with others - and to the ways in which we care about, and respond to, each other in such interactions." -- with a bonus offer--; .