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Epiphenomenal Mind: An Integrated Outlook on Sensations, Beliefs, and Pleasure: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

Autor William S. Robinson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 dec 2020
According to epiphenomenalism, our behavior is caused by events in our brains that also cause our mentality. This resulting mentality reflects our brains’ organization, but does not in turn cause anything. This book defends an epiphenomenalist account of philosophy of mind. It builds on the author’s previous work by moving beyond a discussion of sensations to apply an epiphenomenalist outlook to other aspects of mental causation such as beliefs, desires, pleasure, and displeasure. The first four chapters of the book argue for a dualistic theory of sensations and develop an epiphenomenalist version of dualism. The remaining chapters discuss propositional attitudes and valence. The author also responds to potential objections to epiphenomenalism by considering how sensations, intelligence, or understanding might be built into a robot. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in philosophy of mind who are interested in consciousness, mental causation, and how our mentality is situated in the world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367732882
ISBN-10: 0367732882
Pagini: 212
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Preface


1. Sensations


2. Developing Dualism


3. Epiphenomenalism


4. Experience as Such


5. Mental Causation


6. Believing and Desiring


7. Robots


8. Unconscious Processing


9. Valence


10. Epilogue

Recenzii

"Any philosopher interested in the philosophy of mind should read William S. Robinson's book. It is a clear, thoughtful, well-argued, and sophisticated discussion of how to understand our talk about such mental states as sensation, belief, and pleasure. Robinson takes the arguments where they lead him, and they lead him to provide a quite different analysis of sensation from the one he offers of belief and other intentional states."Richard Fumerton in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Descriere

This book defends an epiphenomenalist account of philosophy of mind. It builds on the author’s previous work by moving beyond a discussion of sensations to apply an epiphenomenalist outlook to other aspects of mental causation such as beliefs, desires, pleasure, and displeasure.