Persons And Their Minds
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A01=Elmer Sprague
account
advanced philosophy of mind analysis
agency in mental states
agent's
Agent's Stance
Author_Elmer Sprague
Black Squirrel
body
Cartesian dualism critique
Category Mistake
Category=QD
Clair De Lune
cognitive science theory
Common Language
Conscious States
Corporeal Movements
Direct Psychological Connections
Dispositional Analysis
dualism
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
events
Freer View
functionalism debate
Humanlike Machine
Machine Code
mental
Mental Events
Mental Predicates
Mental Processes
Mental Symbols
Mind Body Dualism
Nomological Net
Permanent Individuality
philosophy of consciousness
Physico Chemical Mechanism
predicates
psychological subjectivity
ryle's
Ryle's Account
Semantic Properties
spectator
Spectator Stance
Squirrel
stance
Wittgenstein's Dictum
Product details
- ISBN 9780367317218
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Aug 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Persons and Their Minds compares the conflicting claims of mindism and personism and argues for placing persons at the center of philosophy of mind. Mindism stems from Descartes, takes the spectator stance, and makes the mind the subject of mental verbs such as ?know,? ?think,? and ?believe.? Personism stems from Wittgenstein and Ryle, takes the ag
Elmer Sprague is professor emeritus at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, where he taught philosophy for 44 years. He has a B.A. from the University of Nebraska, and a B.A. and D.Phil. from Oxford. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1948-51), and was the Paul Robert and Jean Shuman Hanna Professor of Philosophy at Hamline University (1987). His previous publications include articles on Ryle and Hume, and the book, Metaphysical Thinking.
