Current Issues in Philosophy of MindAnthony O'Hear What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and the world? What is consciousness? What is experience? How free are we? Do we have special insights into ourselves? These perennial questions are at the forefront of the philosophical concerns today. Much of the most exciting and innovative work in philosophy at the present time is being done in the philosophy of mind. The best of this work is represented in this collection, based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series for 1996/7. It brings together leading figures in the area from Britain and the US, who lay out their thoughts on key issues in an accessible way. The book will be of great interest both to those working in the field and to those keen to discover just where philosophy and the philosophy of mind is moving at the end of the twentieth century. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The MindBody Problem After Fifty Years | 3 |
How to Find the Neural Correlate of Consciousness | 23 |
Embodiment and the Philosophy of Mind | 35 |
Folk Psychology and Mental Simulation | 53 |
Understanding Other Minds from the Inside | 83 |
the Wittgensteinian Legacy | 101 |
Joint Attention and the First Person | 123 |
Experience and Reason in Perception | 203 |
Intentionality as the Mark of the Mental | 229 |
Intentionality and Interpretation | 253 |
Externalism and Norms | 273 |
Mind World and Value | 303 |
Themes from Kant | 321 |
The Modality of Freedom | 349 |
Dualism in Action | 377 |
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