Philosophy of Mind

10 best books like Philosophy of Mind (Jaegwon Kim): The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding, The Concept of Mind, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory, Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation, On the Plurality of Worlds, The View from Nowhere, On Politics and Ethics, Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, Naming and Necessity, Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong

The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding

Author	Humberto R. Maturana
ISBN	0877736421

"Knowing how we know" is the subject of this book. Its authors present a new view of cognition that has important social and ethical implications, for, they assert, the only world we humans can have is the one we create together through the actions of our coexistence. Written for a general audience as...

The Concept of Mind

Author	Gilbert Ryle
ISBN	0226732967

This now-classic work challenges what Ryle calls philosophy's "official theory," the Cartesians "myth" of the separation of mind and matter. Ryle's linguistic analysis remaps the conceptual geography of mind, not so much solving traditional philosophical problems as dissolving them into the...

The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory

Author	David J. Chalmers
ISBN	0195117891

What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions today are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philosophers, and we have...

Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation

Author	Donald Davidson
ISBN	0199246289

Now in a new edition, this volume updates Davidson's exceptional Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (1984), which set out his enormously influential philosophy of language. The original volume remains a central point of reference, and a focus of controversy, with its impact extending into...

On the Plurality of Worlds

Author	David Kellogg Lewis
ISBN	0631224262

against all odds, i am extremely fond of this book. modal realism doesn't really do any of the work that i care most about doing, or resolve any of the questions that i care most about resolving, but i'll give this to david lewis, he seems to have done a great job of resolving the questions that HE cares most...

The View from Nowhere

Author	Thomas Nagel
ISBN	0195056442

Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest, and consider the world from a vantage point that is, in Nagel's words, "nowhere in particular." At the same time, each of us is a particular person...

On Politics and Ethics

Author	Thomas Aquinas
ISBN	0393952436

The selections not only include St. Thomas Aquinas’s views on government, law, war, property, and sexual ethics, but also provide the theological, epistemological, and psychological background for his political and ethical thought, including the Five Proofs on the existence of God and Aquinas’s...

Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind

Author	Paul M. Churchland
ISBN	0262530740

In "Matter and Consciousness," Paul Churchland clearly presents the advantages and disadvantages of such difficult issues in philosophy of mind as behaviorism, reductive materialism, functionalism, and eliminative materialism. This new edition incorporates the striking developments that...

Naming and Necessity

Author	Saul A. Kripke
ISBN	0674598466

If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it.

Ever since the publication of its original version, "Naming and Necessity" has had great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural...

Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong

Author	Marc Hauser
ISBN	0060780703

Marc Hauser's eminently readable and comprehensive book Moral Minds is revolutionary. He argues that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct, unconsciously propelling us to deliver judgments of right and wrong independent of gender, education, and religion. Experience tunes up our moral...