Abstract
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind presents a guide on the philosophy of mind. The study of the mind has always been one of the main preoccupations of philosophers, and has been a booming area of research in recent decades, with remarkable advances in psychology and neuroscience. A leading international team of contributors offer forty-five critical surveys of a wide range of topics relating to the mind. The first two sections cover the place of the mind in the natural world: its ontological status, how it fits into the causal fabric of the universe, and the nature of consciousness. The third section focuses on the much-debated subjects of content and intentionality. The fourth section examines a variety of mental capacities, including memory, imagination, and emotion. The fifth section looks at epistemic issues, in particular regarding knowledge of one's own and other minds. The volume concludes with a section on self, personhood, and agency.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Number of pages | 832 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780191577154 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780199262618 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 2 2009 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Arts and Humanities
Keywords
- Agency
- Causal fabric
- Consciousness
- Content
- Emotion
- Epistemic issues
- Imagination
- Intentionality
- Knowledge
- Memory
- Mental capacities
- Natural world
- Neuroscience
- Ontological status
- Personhood
- Psychology
- Self
- Universe