philosophy of mind

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1、PhilosophyofMindPraiseforthefirstedition:‘ThisbookcontainssomeoftheclearestandmostpenetratingdiscussionsIhaveeverreadoffunctionalismandoftheinterpretativeaccountsofDavidsonandDennett.Thisfactalonemakesthebookanappealingcandidateforupper-levelundergraduatecoursesinthemetaphysicsofmind.’Philosophica

2、lQuarterly‘JohnHeil’sbookwouldbeusefulforalmostanyundergraduatecourseinthephilo-sophyofmind.’FredDretske,StanfordUniversityPhilosophyofMind:AContemporaryIntroductionisacomprehensiveandaccessiblesurveyofthemainthemes,positionsanddebatesinphilosophyofmind.JohnHeilintroducesanddiscussesthemajortopic

3、sinsuccinct,user-friendly,self-containedchapters:•Cartesiandualism•Descartes’slegacy•non-Cartesiandualism•behaviorism•theidentitytheory•functionalism•therepresentationaltheoryofmind•qualia•radicalinterpretation•theintentionalstance•eliminativism•propertydualism•mindandmetaphysics•themind’splacein

4、natureThisrevisedandupdatededitionincludesexpandedchaptersoneliminativism,qualia,andtherepresentationaltheoryofmind,andanentirelynewchapteronpropertydualism.Thereareannotatedsuggestionsforfurtherreadingattheendofeachchapter,updatedtoincluderecentmaterialandInternetresources.JohnHeilisPaulB.Freela

5、ndProfessorofPhilosophyatDavidsonCollege,USA,andProfessorofPhilosophyatMonashUniversity,Australia.Hispreviouspublica-tionsincludeTheNatureofTrueMinds(1992)andFromanOntologicalPointofView(2003).RoutledgeContemporaryIntroductionstoPhilosophySerieseditor:PaulK.MoserLoyolaUniversityofChicagoThisinnov

6、ative,well-structuredseriesisforstudentswhohavealreadydoneanintroductorycourseinphilosophy.Eachbookintroducesacoregeneralsubjectincontemporaryphilosophyandoffersstudentsanaccessiblebutsubstantialtransitionfromintroductorytohigher-levelcollegeworkinthatsubject.Theseriesisaccessibletonon-specialist

7、sandeachbookclearlymotivatesandexpoundstheproblemsandposi-tionsintroduced.Anorientatingchapterbrieflyintroducesitstopicandremindsreadersofanycrucialmaterialtheyneedtohaveretainedfromatypicalintroductorycourse.Considerab