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The Philosophy of Mind (The Great Courses) Digital Audiobook – January 1, 1998

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In any intellectual era there are certain overriding problems that form the horizon
of intellectual life. In our era the leading problem is how to account for our
commonsense conception of ourselves as conscious, free, mindful, rational
agents in a world consisting entirely of mindless, meaningless, blind, purposeless
physical particles in fields of physical force.

This problem is manifest in countless ways. How do the social sciences relate to
the natural sciences? What is the nature of mental illness and how does it relate
to physical illness? Can we really discover laws of human behavior analogous to
the laws of physics? The central problem area, however, lies in the philosophy
of mind. What is the nature and structure of the human mind and how does it
relate to the rest of reality? The aim of this series is to introduce the reader to
some of the leading issues in the philosophy of mind and above all to enable the
reader to think about these problems for himself or herself.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001AYZWHQ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Teaching Company (January 1, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Digital Audiobook ‏ : ‎ 0 pages
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds

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John Heil

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John Heil is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St Louis and Durham University, an Honorary Research Associate at Monash University, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. He is editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association.

Heil’s interests center on what the Australians call ‘ontologically serious’ metaphysics, metaphysics untainted by epistemology and the philosophy of language. He puts a premium on clarity and disdains jargon. Metaphysical questions force themselves on any moderately reflective human being, but are in most cases brushed aside as ‘merely philosophical'. What is time? Does time flow? If so, how fast? What is the relation between the familiar everyday world of trees, rabbits, and instruments in laboratories, and the world as characterized by physics? You can get a feel for Heil’s approach to these and other metaphysical questions in What is Metaphysics? (Polity Press).

Web page: https://philosophy.wustl.edu/people/john-heil-faha