Materialism and the Mind-Body Problem / Edition 2

by David M. Rosenthal

Overview

An expanded and updated edition of this classic collection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872204782
Publisher:	Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	09/01/2000
Series:	Hackett Classics Series
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	323
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

David M. Rosenthal is Professor of Philosophy, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction

I. CLASSICAL MATERIALISM

      Descartes: Selections from Discourse on the Method of rightly directing one's Reason and of seeking Truth
          in the Science, pt V

      from letter to the Marquis of Newcastle

      from letter to Henry More

      from Meditations on First Philosophy, Sixth Meditation

      Spinoza: from Ethics, pts I - III

      Hobbes: Selections from Leviathan, pt I, chs 1, 2 and 3

      from De Corpore, pt IV, ch 25

II. THE IDENTITY THESIS

      J. J. C. Smart: Sensations and the Brain Processes

      J. Shaffer: Mental Events and the Brain

      J. W. Cornman: The Identity of Mind and Body

III. THEORETICAL MATERIALISM

      J. Kim: On the Psycho-Physical Identity Theory.

      T. Nagel: Physicalism; Postscript (November 1968)

      K. Gunderson: Asymmetries and Mind-Body Perplexities

IV. FUNCTIONALISTIC MATERIALISM

      J. A. Fodor: Materialism. H. Putnam: The Nature of Mental States

      D. K. Lewis: An Argument for the Identity Theory, with addenda (October 1969)

V. ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM

      P. K. Feyerabend: Mental Events and the Brain

      R. Rorty: Mind-Body Identity, Privacy, and Categories

      R. J. Bernstein: The Challenge of Scientific Materialism

      R. Rorty: In Defense of Eliminative Materialism

Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

The original 1971 anthology, now considered classic, remains intact, but a new section of five essays has been added exploring mind-body materialism in light of recent concerns about how to characterize the various kinds of mental phenomena, and how these phenomena figure in psychological explanations. The introduction and the bibliography too have been augmented rather than revised. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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