Matter and Mind
Mario. Bunge
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Dordrecht : Springer , cop. 2010
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (324 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Preface; Contents; Introduction; Part I Matter; 1 Philosophy as Worldview; 2 Classical Matter: Bodies and Fields; 3 Quantum Matter: Weird But Real; 4 General Concept of Matter: To Be Is To Become; 5 Emergence and Levels; 6 Naturalism; 7 Materialism; Part II Mind; 8 The Mind-Body Problem; 9 Minding Matter: The Plastic Brain; 10 Mind and Society; 11 Cognition, Consciousness, and Free Will; 12 Brain and Computer: The Hardware/Software Dualism; 13 Knowledge: Genuine and Bogus; Part III Appendices; 14 Appendix A: Objects; 15 Appendix B: Truths; References; Index. - This book discusses two of the oldest and hardest problems in both science and philosophy: What is matter? And what is mind? A reason for tackling both problems in a single book is that two of the most influential views in modern philosophy are that the universe is mental (idealism), and that the everything real is material (materialism). Most of the thinkers who espouse a materialist view of mind have obsolete ideas about matter, whereas those who claim that science supports idealism have not explained how the universe could have existed before humans emerged. Besides, both groups tend to ign
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| ISBN | 9789048192243
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