Pete Mandik : This is Philosophy of Mind :
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Pete Mandik’s This is Philosophy of Mind is the latest addition to the ‘‘introduction to the philosophy of mind textbook’’ literature. It is a welcome addition, as Mandik offers readers an encompassing, up-to-date and engagingly written textbook. The objective of This is Philosophy of Mind is to communicate to a wider audience the fascinating and challenging ideas discussed in contemporary philosophy of mind. It is intended as a resource useful for both students taking a course and for anybody else who desires a painless tour through the philosophy of mind zoo. What’s on offer? The book’s 15 chapters breeze through all the traditional topics one would expect in a philosophy of mind course: the mind-body problem and the nature of mental properties, mental representation and intentionality, consciousness and qualitative experience. The chapters cover recent advances too, including contemporary work on perception, imagination and emotion, and less canonical topics like immortality and life after death, which are missing from several introductions to philosophy of mind. An annotated bibliography is at the end of each chapter, containing references to primary literature and to online encyclopaedia entries to help readers deepen their knowledge of the topic. A companion blog for this book, which can be found at http://tipom.blogspot.com/, provides additional bibliographic references to both philosophical and scientific work. For whom is the book useful? Mandik delivers on what he promises. The book, along with its companion blog, is a useful, accessible, resource. It will be particularly useful to lower-level undergraduate students, who may have no previous exposure to philosophy. All the problems are explored that an introductory course in philosophy of mind should explore. And the delivery is rigorous, concise,
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