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Closer to Truth is a television series on public television [1] originally created, produced, and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn.The original series aired in 2000 for two seasons, followed by a second series aired in 2003 for a single season.
This is a list of philosophers of mind. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Peter Carruthers (philosopher) Héctor-Neri Castañeda; Michel de Certeau; Monima Chadha; David Chalmers; C. T. K. Chari; Kah Kyung Cho; Patricia Churchland; Paul Churchland; Emil Cioran; Étienne Bonnot de Condillac; Anne Conway (philosopher) Manuel Curado
The philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the body and the external world. The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a number of other issues are addressed, such as the hard problem of consciousness and the nature of particular mental states.
In the philosophy of mind, Leibniz's gap is the problem that thoughts cannot be observed or perceived solely by examining brain properties, events, and processes. Here the word "gap" is a metaphor of a subquestion regarding the mind–body problem that allegedly must be answered in order to reach a more profound understanding of qualia, consciousness and emergence.
Many of the methods and techniques central to neuroscientific discovery rely on assumptions that can limit the interpretation of the data. Philosophers of neuroscience have discussed such assumptions in the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), [6] [7] dissociation in cognitive neuropsychology, [8] [9] single unit recording, [10] and computational neuroscience. [11]
McGinn has written extensively on philosophical logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of language, but is best known for his work in philosophy of mind. He is known in particular for the development of the idea that human minds are incapable of solving the problem of consciousness , a position known as new mysterianism .
The computational theory of mind holds that the mind is a computational system that is realized (i.e. physically implemented) by neural activity in the brain. The theory can be elaborated in many ways and varies largely based on how the term computation is understood.