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Science of the Mind: 2nd Edition
Author(s): Owen Flanagan (Author)
- Publisher: Bradford Books
- Publication Date: March 5, 1991
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 440 pages
- ISBN-10: 0262560569
- ISBN-13: 9780262560566
Book Description
Consciousness emerges as the key topic in this second edition of Owen Flanagan’s popular introduction to cognitive science and the philosophy of psychology. in a new chapter Flanagan develops a neurophilosophical theory of subjective mental life. He brings recent developments in the theory of neuronal group selection and connectionism to bear on the problems of the evolution of consciousness, qualia, the unique first-personal aspects of consciousness, the causal role of consciousness, and the function and development of the sense of personal identity. He has also substantially revised the chapter on cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence to incorporate recent discussions of connectionism and parallel distributed processing.
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About the Author
Owen Flanagan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is the author of Consciousness Reconsidered and The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World, both published by the MIT Press, and other books.
