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9780813391281

Persons And Their Minds: A Philosophical Investigation

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    9780813391281

  • ISBN10:

    0813391288

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1999-07-23
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

"Persons and Their Minds" returns persons to the center of philosophy of mind, and advocates retiring materialism, mind-brain dualism and biological naturalism to the metaphysical scrap heap.

Author Biography

Elmer Sprague is professor emeritus at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, where he taught philosophy for 44 years. He has a B.A. from the University of Nebraska, and a B.A. and D.Phil. from Oxford. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1948–51), and was the Paul Robert and Jean Shuman Hanna Professor of Philosophy at Hamline University (1987). His previous publications include articles on Ryle and Hume, and the book, Metaphysical Thinking.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Mindism and Personism
Mindism and Personismp. 3
Descartes's Concept of Mindp. 11
Un-Locke-ing the Mindp. 25
A Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Mindp. 37
Ryle, Mind, and Personsp. 67
Wittgenstein and Rylep. 85
Personism and Mindism
Mental Events?p. 97
Functionalismp. 105
Giving Persons a Hard Timep. 117
Consciousnessp. 145
Envoip. 183
Bibliographyp. 185
Indexp. 189
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