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Agnostic
Animal Kingdom
Artist's Model
Artist’s Model
Author_Janice Thomas
Bare Monads
body
Bundle Theory
Cartesian Substance Dualism
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Causally Closed
causation
consciousness studies
Constant Conjunction
dominant
Dominant Monad
early modern philosophy
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Higher Order Thought Theory
historical philosophy of mind debates
Hume's Bundle Theory
Hume’s Bundle Theory
immaterial
Immaterial Substance
interaction
introspection theory
Leibniz's View
Leibniz’s View
mental
Mental Causation
mental representation
Mental Transparency
Missing Shade
MIT Press
Monad's Perceptions
Monad’s Perceptions
Non-human Animals
Nonhuman Animals
Phenomenal Consciousness
philosophical psychology
properties
rational
Rational Soul
Rst Person Authority
self-knowledge analysis
soul
Spinoza's Theory
Spinoza’s Theory
substance
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9781844651870
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Apr 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is a comprehensive examination of the ideas of the early modern philosophers on the nature of mind. Taking Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume in turn, Janice Thomas presents an authoritative and critical assessment of each of these canonical thinkers' views of the notion of mind. The book examines each philosopher's position on five key topics: the metaphysical character of minds and mental states; the nature and scope of introspection and self-knowledge; the nature of consciousness; the problem of mental causation and the nature of representation and intentionality. The exposition and examination of their positions is informed by present-day debates in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of psychology so that students get a clear sense of the importance of these philosophers' ideas, many of which continue to define our current notions of the mental.Again and again, philosophers and students alike come back to the great early modern rationalist and empiricist philosophers for instruction and inspiration. Their views on the philosophy of mind are no exception and as Janice Thomas shows they have much to offer contemporary debates. The book is suitable for undergraduate courses in the philosophy of mind and the many new courses in philosophy of psychology.
Janice Thomas is a Fellow of Heythrop College, University of London, where she was formerly Head of the Department of Philosophy.
