Authors: Patricia Smith Churchland
ISBN-13: 9780262532006, ISBN-10: 026253200X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Patricia Smith Churchland is Chair of the Philosophy Department and the UC President's Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute. She is past president of the American Philosophical Association and the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
A neurophilosopher's take on the self, free will, human understanding, and the experience of God, from the perspective of the brain.
Preface | ||
1 | Introduction | 1 |
I | Metaphysics | 35 |
2 | An Introduction to Metaphysics | 37 |
3 | Self and Self-Knowledge | 59 |
4 | Consciousness | 127 |
5 | Free Will | 201 |
II | Epistemology | 239 |
6 | An Introduction to Epistemology | 241 |
7 | How Do Brains Represent? | 273 |
8 | How Do Brains Learn? | 321 |
III | Religion | 371 |
9 | Religion and the Brain | 373 |
Notes | 403 | |
References | 421 | |
Index | 451 |