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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"Philosophy of Mind"”.
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Al-Rāzī's Philosophy of Mind
This dissertation offers a systematic study of al-Rāzī’s philosophy of mind, exploring his position on the nature of the soul as it developed throughout his intellectual life, with a special focus on al-Maṭālib. In treating the subject matter of the soul, al-Rāzī employs a dialectical methodology …
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Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind and the Subject
… a phenomenologically-informed ontological model of the subject of experiences. This model will attempt to explain how it is possible for a subject to have experiences with a subjective character, which are like something for their subject. It will also address how the subject can have experiences …
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Methodology and Reductionism in the Philosophy of Mind
In contemporary philosophy of mind, the mind-body problem is often framed in terms ofthe reduction of psychology to neuroscience. In this thesis I argue that whether or notone regards such a reduction as tenable depends upon a methodological decision aboutthe importance of our naïve intuitions …
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Rethinking machines: artificial intelligence beyond the philosophy of mind
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Art and imagination, a study in the philosophy of mind
… is to show that, starting from an empiricist philosophy of mind, it is possible to give a systematic account of aesthetic experience. I argue that empiricism involves a certain theory of meaning and truth; one problem is to show how this theory is compatible with the activity of aesthetic …
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Physicalism, intentionality, mind : three studies in the philosophy of mind.
Thesis. 1977. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy.
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Inherited Ontologies and the Relations between Philosophy of Mind and the Empirical Cognitive Sciences
A productive relationship between the philosophy of mind and the empirical cognitive sciences not only is possible, but also is pursued productively by practitioners from both sides. In the first two chapters, I consider two examples of sets of concepts (“folk psychology” and the “architecture of …
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Making Sense in Nineteenth Century Britain: Affinities of the Philosophy of Mind, c.1820-1860
This work examines British inquiry into the human mind in the early nineteenth century using a multivalent structural analysis of ideas and practices within traditions established by Hume, Hartley, and Reid. While these traditions were propagated into the nineteenth century by such figures as …
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Three analytic philosophy of mind debates and a Deleuzian intervention: Folk Psychology, Personal Identity and Free Will
The purpose of my thesis is to examine whether Gilles Deleuze can offer valuable input to the three philosophy of mind debates: folk psychology, personal identity and free will. Prior to this I attempt to show that analytic philosophy in general might benefit from accepting ‘process’ philosophy as …
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Language on Holiday and the Philosophy of Mind: A Linguistically Sensitive Approach to Phenomenal Consciousness, Pain, and Psychological Predicates
The aim of this thesis is to contribute to debates about three topics in the philosophy of mind: phenomenal consciousness, pain, and the extension of psychological predicates. Chapter 1 outlines my metaphilosophical views and gives a roadmap to the thesis. Chapter 2 argues that the ‘what-it’s-like’ …
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Intentionality, Information and Consciousness: A Naturalistic Perspective
In this thesis, I offer a new interpretation of the principles of Naturalistic philosophy that are relevant to the philosophy of mind. In doing so, I attempt to accomplish the broader task of showing how we can make significant progress in our thinking about consciousness by first offering new …
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Defending the Multiple Realization Argument against the Identity Theory
<p>A classic argument in the philosophy of mind is that the identity theory is false because mental state types are multiply realized in brain state types. In this dissertation I provide a detailed elaboration of the argument and a defense of it against a few of its prominent contemporary critics. …
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Perceiving Temporal Structure
… revived challenges, and to show how a theory of temporal perception bears on central issues in the philosophy of mind. Experience manifestly possesses its own temporal structure. If we have perceptual experiences of the temporal structure of external events, it seems natural to ask whether …
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Desires and dispositions
In philosophy of mind, desire is an also-ran when it comes to theorizing about mental states - all the attention is on belief, (visual) perceptual experience, and pain. Desire is largely ignored, as it is assumed to be similar enough to belief that one can simply focus on belief, in forming …
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The Constellations of Empiricism, New Science, and Mind in Hobbes, Locke, and Hume
… and negative tensions among the “unit-ideas” of New Science and empiricism are explored as they relate to explanations of aspects of mind in the Modern period. Some constellations of ideas are mutually supporting, and provide fruitful discussion on how mind can fit into the natural world. This …
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Wittgenstein and irreducible uncertainty: therapeutic implications for education of a non-local model of mind
This thesis proposes a new model of mind based on the philosophy of Wittgenstein and offers an application of the model to the current educational context. The thesis first analyses the context of the major contending models of mind. Despite widely differing approaches, each model provides a theory …
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The Irreducibility of Intentionality
We often explain our actions in terms of our beliefs and desires. These beliefs and desires are often referred to as intentional mental states, i.e. mental states with contents that refer to something outside of themselves. There are two pertinent questions in the philosophy of mind regarding the …
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Potency & Process: A Naturalistic Defense of Mental Causation
It has been argued extensively in contemporary philosophy of mind and neuroscience that physicalism precludes the possibility of robust mental causation. "Exclusion arguments" of the sort offered by Jaegwon Kim present the physicalist with an apparent dilemma: either all putatively "mental" …
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The Ontology of Mental Events: Lacan’s Psychoanalytic Categories of the Self and the Ontological Derivation of Qualia
… between qualitative and quantitative aspects of perceptual experience. I do this by examining the difficulties in delineating these concepts as discrete categories as they relate to apperception; in particular, it seems that contemporary analytic philosophy of mind, such as the theories of …
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Functionalism and Strange Minds
… surrounding the functionalism thesis in philosophy of mind, seeking to expand, critique, and clarify sections of the arguement with a special attention made to the physical constraints on what constitutes a sufficient realizer, the difficulties in multiple realizability, and the …
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