232 Pages
    by Routledge

    A welcome introduction to one of the most intellectually demanding areas of the undergraduate philosophy curriculum. The authors provide a clear framework within which students can fit contemporary developments in the Anglo-American tradition which provide the core themes of philosophy of mind and which connect to their other work in epistemology and philosophy of language.

    Descartes and the demarcation of body and mind; explanation and reduction - the road to functionalism; folk psychology and the problem of intentionality; the language of thought; varieties of externalism; the problems of qualia; self-knowledge and the inner;the subjective viewpoint; the mind, the body and the world.

    Biography

    Paul Gilbert, Kathleen Lennon