Title: The philosophy of mind : an introduction /
Authors: Smith, Peter, 1944-; Jones, O. R.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1986
Subjects: Dualism.; Perception (Philosophy); Belief and doubt.; Thought and thinking.; Philosophy; Models, Psychological
Abstract: Inleiding in de filosofische wetenschap
Contents: Dualism, for and against. Arguments for dualism ; Descartes's argument ; Difficulties for the dualist ; Assessing the dualist theory -- Towards a better theory of the mind. An Aristotelian framework ; Perception and sense-data ; Perception and the acquisition of beliefs ; Action and volition ; Two theories of belief ; The function of beliefs ; Functionalism and folk psychology ; Assessing the functionalist theory -- Sensation, thought and freedom. Sensations : the phenomenological theory ; Sensations : functionalism and consciousness ; Thinking ; Reasons and causes ; Causality and freedom.