The problem of consciousness continues to be a subject of great debate in cognitive
science. Synthesizing decades of research, The Conscious Brain advances a new theory of …

Physicalism, the thesis that everything is physical, is one of the most controversial problems
in philosophy. Its adherents argue that there is no more important doctrine in philosophy …

How does thinking affect doing? There is a widely held view—both in academia and in the
popular press—that thinking about what you are doing, as you are doing it, hinders …

There is an underlying assumption in the social sciences that consciousness and social life
are ultimately classical physical/material phenomena. In this ground-breaking book …

Conscious experience presents a deep puzzle. On the one hand, a fairly robust materialism
must be true in order to explain how it is that conscious events causally interact with non …

Structure and the Metaphysics of Mind is the first book to show how hylomorphism can be
used to solve mind-body problems--persistent problems understanding how thought, feeling …

A Physicalist Manifesto is a full treatment of the comprehensive physicalist view that, in some
important sense, everything is physical. Andrew Melnyk argues that the view is best …

In Embodied Minds in Action, Robert Hanna and Michelle Maiese work out a unified
treatment of three fundamental philosophical problems: the mind-body problem, the problem …

How should physical entities be characterized? Physicalists, who have most to do with the
notion, usually characterize the physical by reference to two components, 1 1. The physical …

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