Chapter ID: CBB000101474

Materialistic Theories of Mind and Brain (2001)

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Thomson, Ann (Author)


Pages: 149--173
Publication date: 2001
Language: English


Description Discusses the relationship between science and philosophy, focusing on the eighteenth-century materialist question of the function of the brain.


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Authors & Contributors
Wolfe, Charles T.
Bassiri, Nima
Celesia, Gastone G.
Connor, Steven
Dybikowski, James
Eling, Paul
Journals
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Intellectual History Review
Journal of the History of Ideas
Publishers
Edinburgh University Press
McGill-Queen's University Press
Schwabe
University of Virginia Press
Concepts
Mind and body
Brain
Materialism
Philosophy
Soul (philosophy)
Neuroscience
People
Priestley, Joseph
Alcmaeon of Crotona
Diderot, Denis
Donne, John
Gall, Franz Joseph
Hume, David
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century
Enlightenment
21st century
Places
Vienna (Austria)
Great Britain
Paris (France)
Germany
Greece
Scotland
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