Link:
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4244
In "Consciousness and Mental Life", Daniel Robinson argues for the
foundational primacy of folk psychology over cognitive neuroscience.
Robinson answers the question whether consciousness can fully be
explained by the sciences of the brain with a clear no, for it lacks
the very conception that urges humans to ask such questions -- mental
life. In a very readable and highly witty way, Robinson manages to
discuss most of the major positions and key players in the current
debates surrounding consciousness. From identity theory to Davidson's
anomalous monism, from Putnam's externalism to Dennettian
functionalism, from higher order theories to personal identity,
Robinson weaves his argument around the relevant questions all the
while reflecting on their historic predecessors like Hobbes, Hume,
Locke, Aristotle etc. The presentation of his position is thus a good
example of how the history of philosophy can inform contem****ary works
on the subject. Link:
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4244
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