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Philosophy of Mind
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Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction is prehensive and accessible
survey of the main themes, positions and debates in philosophy of mind. John Heil
introduces and discusses the major topics in inct, user-friendly, self-contained
chapters:
• Cartesian dualism
• Descartes’s legacy
• non-Cartesian dualism
• behaviorism
• the identity theory
• functionalism
• the representational theory of mind
• qualia
• radical interpretation
• the intentional stance
• eliminativism
• property dualism
• mind and metaphysics
• the mind’s place in nature
This revised and updated edition includes expanded chapters on eliminativism,
qualia, and the representational theory of mind, and an entirely new chapter on
property dualism. There are annotated suggestions for further reading at the end of
each chapter, updated to include recent material and resources.
John Heil is Paul B. Freeland Professor of Philosophy at Davidson College, USA,
and Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, Australia. His previous publica-
tions include The Nature of True Minds (1992) and From an Ontological Point of View
(2003).
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