Consciousness and Mental Life

Daniel N. Robinson

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December, 2007
Cloth, 264 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14100-0
$35.00 / £24.00

"[An] engaging book... Highly recommended." — Library Journal

"Robinson offers up a feast . . . with sparkling prose, illuminating examples, and original analysis of the rich fare in each and every course." — Barbara S. Held, PsycCRITIQUES

"A most welcome contribution to the current debate, from an author who is a renowned psychologist and equally at home in cognitive neuroscience and in philosophy of mind." — Peter Hacker, St. John's College, Oxford, and author of Human Nature: The Categorical Framework

"Few authors possess the learning exemplified by Daniel N. Robinson in this study. This master of classical learning as well as contemporary scholarship is unmatched by anyone in his field." — Jude P. Dougherty, editor of Review of Metaphysics

Related Subjects

• Neuroscience & Psychology
• Philosophy of Science

About the Author

Daniel N. Robinson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University and a member of the philosophy faculty at Oxford University. Producing almost fifty volumes of work, he has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the History of Psychology division of the American Psychological Association, the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology Division of the same organization and the 2011 Gittler Award from the American Psychological Association. He was principal consultant to PBS and the BBC for the award-winning series The Brain and The Mind, and his 110 lectures for The Teaching Company are among its most successful.

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