"The Nature of Consciousness"

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(Copyright © 2013 Piero Scaruffi | Legal restrictions )

2. Mind and Matter

(A Brief Introduction to Philosophy of Mind)

(Edited in 2013 by Sean Champagne from Piero Scaruffi's book and subsequent revisions)

 

The Takeover of the Mind

Dualism And The Mind-Body Debate

Epiphenomenalism

The World Of Ideas

Supervenience

Monism

Idealism

Neutral Monism

Materialism

Behaviorism

The Age Of Materialism

The Identity Theory

The Irreducibility Problem

Anomalous Monism

The Age Of Functionalism

Computational Functionalism

The Computational Theory of the Mind

Homunculi

Brains Cause Minds

Intentionality

The Intentional Stance

Intentionality as Representation

Phenomenology

Variants on Materialism

Eliminative Materialism

The Cognition-consciousness Problem

Mind or Matter

The Factory of Illusions


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