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Paul Churchland Brian L. Keeley (Pitzer College, Claremont)

Paul Churchland By Brian L. Keeley (Pitzer College, Claremont)

Paul Churchland by Brian L. Keeley (Pitzer College, Claremont)


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For over three decades, Paul Churchland has been a provocative and controversial philosopher of mind and of science. Including contributions by both established and promising young philosophers, this collection offers an introduction to Churchland's work, as well as a critique of some of his most famous philosophical positions.

Paul Churchland Summary

Paul Churchland by Brian L. Keeley (Pitzer College, Claremont)

For over three decades, Paul Churchland has been a provocative and controversial philosopher of mind and of science. He is most famous as an advocate of 'eliminative materialism', whereby he suggests that our commonsense understanding of our own minds is radically defective and that the science of brain demonstrates this (just as an understanding of physics reveals that our commonsense understanding of a flat and motionless earth is similarly false). This collection offers an introduction to Churchland's work, as well as a critique of some of his most famous philosophical positions. Including contributions by both established and promising young philosophers, it is intended to complement the growing literature on Churchland, focusing on his contributions in isolation from those of his wife and philosophical partner, Patricia Churchland, as well as on his contributions to philosophy as distinguished from those to Cognitive Science.

About Brian L. Keeley (Pitzer College, Claremont)

Brian L. Keeley is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute for Mental Health, the McDonnell Project for Philosophy and the Neurosciences, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He has published in the Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Pyschology, Philosophy of Science, Biology and Philosophy and Brain and Mind.

Table of Contents

Preface Brian L. Keeley; 1. Becoming Paul M. Churchland Brian L. Keeley; 2. Arguing for eliminativism Jose Luis Bermudez; 3. The introspectibility of brain states as such Pete Mandik; 4. Empiricism and state space semantics Jesse J. Prinz; 5. Churchland on connectionism Aarre Laakso and Garrison W. Cottrell; 6. Reduction as cognitive strategy C. A. Hooker; 7. The unexpected realist William H. Krieger and Brian L. Keeley; 8. Two steps closer on consciousness Daniel C. Dennett.

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NPB9780521830119
9780521830119
0521830117
Paul Churchland by Brian L. Keeley (Pitzer College, Claremont)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
20051010
230
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