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Introduction to philosophy of mind?

zilali
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Posted 08/26/08 - 01:34 PM: Subject: Introduction to philosophy of mind?	#1
I've recently been interested in the philosophy of mind, consciousness and debate between dualism and physicalism. However all I have read are snippets of wikipedia articles and bits and bobs by people like Daniel Dennet and John Searle on the Internet. Can anyone recommend a good book which introduces the main concepts of philosophy of mind? I've never studied philosophy before so i'm looking for something readable and easy to understand.

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Posted 08/26/08 - 01:43 PM:	#2
Mind. By John Searle. It's a great historical rundown of the problems at hand. Or Consciousness: a very short introduction by Susan Blackmore
Embodied Cognition: http://www.iep.utm.edu/e/embodcog.htm#H2

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Posted 08/26/08 - 02:05 PM:	#3
Thanks for the reply I just looked at my uni library and found a book by Searle called .. 'Mind, language and society : philosophy in the real world'. Is this the book you were talking about?

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Posted 08/26/08 - 02:30 PM:	#4
that's a good one too, but it's not the same one. The one I mentioned is called: Mind: a brief introduction
Embodied Cognition: http://www.iep.utm.edu/e/embodcog.htm#H2

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Posted 09/02/08 - 02:33 AM:	#5
Try Kim's Philosophy of Mind and Andy Clark's Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. Read both because they cover different material.

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