The Mind Incarnate (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology)
Publisher: The MIT Press; MIT Press
Published: April 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780262194969
Subjects: Philosophy of mind; Philosophy; Mind & Body; Philosophy / Mind & Body; Mind and body
First sentence: Several decades ago philosophers began to consider the possibility that the mind is multiply realizable: that it is possible for minds to be built in various distinct ways.
Description: "How are the mind and body harnessed together? In The Mind Incarnate Lawrence Shapiro addresses this question by testing two widely accepted hypothesis, the multiple realizability thesis and the separability thesis. He argues that there is significant - though far from decisive - evidence against them."

"Collecting evidence from a variety of sources (e.g., neuroscience, evolutionary theory, and embodied cognition) he concludes that the multiple realizability thesis, accepted by most philosophers as a virtual truism, is much less obvious than commonly assumed, and that there is even stronger reason to give up the separability thesis. In contrast to views of mind that tempt us to see the mind as simply being resident in a brain or body, Shapiro's view is a far more encompassing integration of mind, brain, and body than philosophers have supposed."--Jacket.