The escape of the mind /

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Author / Creator:Rachlin, Howard, 1935- author.
Imprint:New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Description:xiv, 214 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10084604
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ISBN:9780199322350 (alk. paper)
019932235X (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • 1. The Invention of the Mind (Plato)
  • 2. Body and Mind (Aristotle)
  • 3. The Division of Mind and Body (Saint Augustine)
  • 4. The Imprisonment of the Mind (Descartes)
  • 5. The Law of Specific Nerve Energies (Müller)
  • 6. The Re-emergence of the Mind
  • 7. The Evolution of Altruism and Self-Control
  • 8. Teleological Analysis of Altruism and Self-Control
  • 9. Consciousness and Behavior
  • 10. Making IBM's Computer Watson Human
  • Two Commentaries
  • Minding Rachlin's Eliminative Materialism
  • What Would It Be Like to Be IBM's Computer Watson?
  • Response to Commentaries: Our Overt Behavior Makes Us Human
  • 11. Shaping the Coherent Self: A Moral Achievement
  • References
  • Index