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References of Lecture (21). Lecture 21: The Mind-Brain Identity Theory (27/3/1974).

Aristotle (1941). De Anima. In R. McKeon (Ed.), The Basic Works of Aristotle. Random House.
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Augustine of Hippo De Quantitate Animae.
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Austin, J. L. (1962a). Sense and sensibilia (Reconstructed by G. J. Warnock). Oxford University Press.
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Berkeley, G. (1710) The principles of human knowledge.
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Boring, E. G. (1933). The Physical Dimension of Consciousness. Century.
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Boring, E. G. (1950). A history of experimental psychology (2nd edition; first edition: 1929). Appleton-Century-Crofts.
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Brain, Lord (1965) Some Aspects of the Mind-Brain Relationship In J. R. Smythies (Ed.)., Brain and Mind (pp. 63-79). Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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Cabanis, P. J. G. (1802). Rapports du physique et du moral de l'homme.
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Carnap, R. (1938). The Unity of Science. Kegan Paul.
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Descartes, R. (1637). Discours de la Méthode.
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Descartes, R. (1649). Les passions de l'âme.
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Eccles, J. C. (1953). The Neurophysiological basis of mind. Clarendon.
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Fechner, G. (1860). Elemente der Psychophysik (Two Volumes. English translation of Volume I as Elements of Psychophysics. H. E. Adler (trans.), D. H. Howes and E. G. Boring (eds.) (1966). Holt, Rinehart and Winston). Breitkopf and Hartel,
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Feigl, H. (1950). The mind-mody problem in the development of logical empiricism. Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 4. Reprinted in H. Feigl and M. Broadbeck (Eds.) (1953), Readings in the Philosophy of Science (pp. 612-626). Appleton-Century-Crofts.
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Feigl, H. (1958). The "Mental" and the "Physical", In H. Feigl, M. Scriven, & G. Maxwell (Eds.), Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Vol II, pp. 370-497). University of Minnesota Press.
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Feigl, H. (1967). The "Mental" and the "Physical": The Essay and a Postscript. University of Minnesota Press.
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Frege, G. (1952). Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege (Eds. P. T. Geach & M. Black; 1952 first edition, 1960 second edition, ). Blackwell.
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Hartley, D. (1749) Observations on Man 1749.
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Harvey, W. (1628). Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus. Frankfurt
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Hobbes, T. (1651). Leviathan.
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Huxley, T. H. (1893). Collected Essays (Vol.I). Macmillan.
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Kant, I. (1781/1787). Kritik der reinen Vernunft (First edition 1781, second edition 1787, English translation as The critique of pure reason). Hartknoch
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Leibniz, G. W. F. von (1964). Selections. In A. G. N. Flew (Ed.), Body, Mind and Death (pp. 149-153). Macmillan.
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Lenin, V. I. (1908) Materialism and empirio-criticism.
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Lucretius De Rerum Naturae
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Malebranch, N. (1674). La Recherche de la Verité.
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Mettrie, J. O. de la (1748). L'homme machine.
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Place, U. T. (1954). The concept of heed. British Journal of Psychology, 45, 243-55. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8295.1954.tb01252.x
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Place, U. T. (1956). Is consciousness a brain process? British Journal of Psychology, 47, 44-50.
[Abstract]The thesis that consciousness is a process in the brain is put forward as a reasonable scientific hypothesis, not to be dismissed on logical grounds alone. The conditions under which two sets of observations are treated as observations of the same process, rather than as observations of two independent correlated processes, are discussed. It is suggested that we can identify consciousness with a given pattern of brain activity, if we can explain the subject's introspective observations by reference to the brain processes with which they are correlated. It is argued that the problem of providing a physiological explanation of introspective observations is made to seem more difficult than it really is by the `phenomenological fallacy', the mistaken idea that descriptions of the appearances of things are descriptions of the actual state of affairs in a mysterious internal environment.
Keywords: consciousness, mind-brain identity theory, phenomenological fallacy
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The revised version from 1997, see download (below), is not published and incorporates revisions proposed in Place (1997g). Publications citing Place (1956): See publications citing 'Is conscious a brain process?'
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Place, U. T. (1967). Comments on H. Putnam 'Psychological predicates'. In W. H. Capitan, & D. D. Merrill (Eds.), Art, mind and religion: Proceedings of the 1965 Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy (pp.55-68). Pittsburgh University Press.
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Plato (1953). Phaedo. In W.D. Woodhead (Tr. & Ed.) Plato: Socratic Dialogues. Nelson.
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Russell, B. (1900). A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz Allen & Unwin.
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Ryle, G. (1949). The Concept of Mind. Hutchinson.
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Sherringtion, C. S. (1940). Man on his Nature, Gifford Lectures 1937-8. Cambridge University Press.
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Smart, J. J. C. (1959). Sensations and brain processes. Philosophical Review, LXVIII, 141-156.
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A revised version with new references appeared in V. C. Chappell (Ed.) (1962), The philosophy of mind. Prentice-Hall. Later reprints are of this version.
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Spinoza, B. (1677). Ethica (Translated as Ethics).
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Strawson, P. F. (1959). Individuals. Methuen.
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Tylor, E. B. (1871). Primitive culture. John Murray.
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Wittgenstein, L. (1953). Philosophical Investigations (English translation by G. E. M. Anscombe). Basil Blackwell.
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Wittgenstein, L. (1958). The Blue and Brown Books Blackwell.
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