Mind and BodyIn Mind and Body Robert Kirk offers an introduction to the complex tangle of questions and puzzles roughly labelled the mind-body problem. |
Contents
are we just machines? | 13 |
Is there something extra? | 29 |
Physicalism | 47 |
Some objections to physicalism | 75 |
Behaviourism | 99 |
Functionalism | 121 |
More about thinking | 137 |
More about feeling | 161 |
Conclusion | 181 |
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