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Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 978-0-631-21205-8

August 1998

Wiley-Blackwell

288 pages

Description
Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction is a lively and accessible introduction to one of philosophy's most active and important areas of research.
About the Author
George Graham is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, and Professor of Psychology, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is co-editor (with William Bechtel) of A Companion to Cognitive Science (Blackwell Publishers, 1998), and (with N. Scott Arnold and Theodore M. Benditt) of Philosophy: Then and Now (also published by Blackwell, 1998).
Features
* Lively, popular, and student-oriented introduction to one of philosophy's most important areas of research.
* First edition praised for its breadth of topics, the attractiveness of its writing, and its textual clarity.
* Changes from the first edition include: the addition of significant new sections on personal identity, functionalism, consciousness and materialism and the addition of a new chapter on epiphenomenalism and psychopathology.