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5 days ago · Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind surveys the central themes in philosophy of mind and places them in a historical and contemporary context intended to engage first-time readers in the field.
Jun 25, 2024 · These questions constitute the so-called “mind-body problem,” a core issue in the philosophy of mind, the area of philosophy that studies phenomena such as thought, perception, emotion, memory, agency, and consciousness. This essay introduces some of the most influential answers to these questions.
Jun 16, 2024 · Functionalism avoids the multiple realisability objection which condemns type-identity theory, and Putnam considers functionalism to be the most defensible theory of mind for this reason.
Jun 16, 2024 · The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis is a wonderfully witty and insightful treatises on the societal and education ills of subjective moral reasoning and values. It is an age transcending piece of literature that is profound in its theological implications while proclaiming bold philosophical warnings against the trepidations of eroding objective ...
4 days ago · Though the mind is nothing but a bundle of perceptions, without intrinsic unity at a time or across time, Lenz rightly takes Hume to treat various people’s mind-bundles as fundamentally disjoint (pp. 162, 188).
1 day ago · 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.
6 days ago · Although The Abolition of Man is purely philosophical, it was motivated by Lewis’s concern that too many people in the Western world have given up on the idea of absolute truth and embraced moral relativism.
