Author : Owen Flanagan
Release : 1991-03-05
Genre : Psychology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 566/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Science of the Mind, second edition by : Owen Flanagan
Download or read book The Science of the Mind, second edition written by Owen Flanagan. This book was released on 1991-03-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consciousness emerges as the key topic in this second edition of Owen Flanagan's popular introduction to cognitive science and the philosophy of psychology. in a new chapter Flanagan develops a neurophilosophical theory of subjective mental life. He brings recent developments in the theory of neuronal group selection and connectionism to bear on the problems of the evolution of consciousness, qualia, the unique first-personal aspects of consciousness, the causal role of consciousness, and the function and development of the sense of personal identity. He has also substantially revised the chapter on cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence to incorporate recent discussions of connectionism and parallel distributed processing.