The meaning of mind : language, morality, and neuroscience

Author(s)

• Szasz, Thomas Stephen

Bibliographic Information

The meaning of mind : language, morality, and neuroscience

Thomas Szasz ; with a new preface by the author

Syracuse University Press, 2002

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-178) and index

"Originally published in 1996 by Praeger Publishers"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Thomas Szasz demonstrates the futility of analysing the mind as a collection of brain functions. In his previous publication ""The Myth of Mental Illness"", he took psychiatry to task for misconstruing human conflict and coping as mental illness. In ""Our Right to Drugs"", he exposed the irrationality and political opportunism that fuels the ""Drug War"". Here, he warns that we misconstrue the dialogue within as a problem of consciousness and neuroscience and do so at our peril.

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Details

• NCID: BA59284707
• ISBN:
  • 081560775X
• LCCN: 2002066923
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Syracuse
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 182 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BD418.3
  • DC20 : 128/.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Philosophy of mind
  • LCSH : Language and languages -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Ethics