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The philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the body and the external world. The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a number of other issues are addressed, such as the hard problem of consciousness and the nature of particular mental states.
Book II, titled "The Witness of History", applied this hypothesis to neolithic culture and the rise of the Mesopotamian and Greek civilizations. Book III, titled "Vestiges of the Bicameral Mind in the Modern World", applies the hypothesis to modern psychological theories of authority, prophecy, possession, poetry, music, hypnosis, and ...
The Concept of Mind is a 1949 book by philosopher Gilbert Ryle, in which the author argues that "mind" is "a philosophical illusion hailing chiefly from René Descartes and sustained by logical errors and 'category mistakes' which have become habitual."
In Think, Blackburn introduces major philosophical fields, such as epistemology, philosophy of the mind, free will, political philosophy, and philosophy of religion, by narrating how key figures in the history of Western philosophy including René Descartes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Ludwig Wittgenstein addressed key concepts in each.
Rey received a doctoral degree in philosophy from Harvard University in 1978. [1] His thesis was titled The possibility of psychology: some preliminary issues, [1] and was completed under Hilary Putnam. [citation needed] His book Contemporary Philosophy of Mind discusses the topic of philosophy of mind.
Neutral monism about the mind–body relationship is described by historian C. D. Broad in The Mind and Its Place in Nature. Broad's list of possible views about the mind–body problem, which became known simply as "Broad's famous list of 1925" (see chapter XIV of Broad's book) [20] states the basis of what this theory had been and was to become.
The class was based on her working draft of Philosophy of the Mind, which would later be edited to become Life of the Mind. Arendt's working draft was distributed to her graduate students. She conceived of a trilogy based on the mental activities of thinking, willing, and judging. Stemming from her Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen ...
Jerry Fodor, The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology, 1983; John Searle, Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind, 1983; Stephen Stich, From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case Against Belief, 1983; Ruth Garrett Millikan, Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism, 1984