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Author Vilarroya, Òscar.

Title The Dissolution of Mind : A Fable of How Experience Gives Rise to Cognition / Oscar Vilarroya.

Publication Info. Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN ; 9789004472495
Open Access e-Books
Value Inquiry Book Series ; 128
Value inquiry book series ; 128.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents List of Illustrations -- Editorial Foreword by Oscar Vilarroya -- Guest Foreword by Adolf Tobeña -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ONE Alice's Perplexities -- TWO Non-Professor O's Aphorisms -- THREE Monday. On How No Superfluous Experiences Exist -- FOUR Tuesday. On How to Get by Without Concepts -- FIVE Wednesday. On How to Live in a Virtual World -- SIX Thursday. On How Words Lost Their Meaning -- SEVEN Friday. On How to Communicate Without Information -- EIGHT Saturday. On How Living Dissolves the Mind -- NINE Sunday. "Tap-Tapping" the Compass -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index.
Summary This book presents an original thesis about the notion of sensory experience and of the mind's architecture, which is grounded in current trends in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Presented in the form of a dialogue, the book explores some of the psychological and philosophical consequences that the author derives from his proposal.-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Cognition -- Philosophy.
Cognition -- Philosophy.
Cognition.
Experience.
Experience.
Philosophy of mind.
Philosophy of mind.
PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Fable of How Experience Gives Rise to Cognition
ISBN 9789004493698
9004493697
9789042013704
9042013702