Thesis
The mind and the brain: introspective description in the light of neurological findings: intentionality
- Abstract:
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Recent attempts to describe the relation between the mental and the physical have met with difficulties because the supposed mental events and entities met with in introspection seem to have capacities and qualities entirely unlike those of physical events and entities. The way out of these difficulties is to follow the method of particle physics; postulate the existence of entities as the result of analysis, not as its prologue. This can be done by adopting the stance that the constituent...
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- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- UUID:
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uuid:26d813f7-6a94-4bb6-b34e-d06743d607e9
- Local pid:
- polonsky:10:29
- Source identifiers:
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601870567
- Deposit date:
- 2017-10-05
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- Copyright holder:
- Dennett, D; Dennett, Daniel C
- Copyright date:
- 1965
- Notes:
- This thesis was digitised thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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