Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind

Paul M. Churchland (Author)

9780521338271, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 14 August 1986

168 pages
21.6 x 13.8 x 1.7 cm, 0.192 kg

'Once in a great while a book appears that makes us want to stand up and cheer. Churchland has written just such a book … The most delightful and intriguing sections of the book are those in which Churchland shows how we might expand our perceptual and introspective consciousness, and come to see the physical world and ourselves through the categories provided by science.' Stephen P. Stitch, Ethics

A study in the philosophy of science, proposing a strong form of the doctrine of scientific realism' and developing its implications for issues in the philosophy of mind.

Preface
1. Introduction
2. The plasticity of perception
3. The plasticity of understanding
4. Our self-conception and the mind/body problem
5. Sentential epistemologies and the natural science of epistemic engines
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Philosophy of science [PDA], Social & political philosophy [HPS]