Matters of Mind

by Scott Sturgeon

The mind-body problem continues to be the focus of many of our philosophical concerns. Matters of Mind tackles the mind-body problem and how it has spanned and changed from the earlier theories of reducing aboutness to empirical cases for physicalism. The theories of perception, property explanation, content and knowledge, reliabilism and the problem of zombies and ghosts are all carefully assessed in this clearly written book.

Scott Sturgeon is Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London.

176 pages, Paperback

First published November 7, 2000

Reviews

[Michal Paszkiewicz · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book a bit of a challenge to read, but it was fun to get through. The concepts are laid out in a very neat fashion, although at times I felt that the language could have been a bit simpler. The chapter about zombies and ghosts was almost as exciting as zombies and ghosts and the rest of the book is a very good guide to how to lay out logical arguments in such a way as to try not to miss steps in your thinking.

Probably not for the faint of heart, but it is a great book for the mind.