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Plant Minds: A Philosophical Defense

by Chauncey Maher

  • Hardback
  • 144 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1 cm

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By connecting the most compelling empirical work on plant behavior with philosophical reflection on the concept of minds, this book aims to help non-experts begin to think clearly about whether plants have minds. Relying on current consensus ideas about minds and plants, Chauncey Maher presents the best case for thinking that plants do not have minds. Along the way, however, he unearths an idea at the root of that case, the idea that having a mind requires the capacity to represent the world. In the last chapter, he defends a relatively new and insightful theory of mind that rejects that assumption, making room for the possibility that plants do have minds, primarily because they are alive.
Plant Minds: A Philosophical Defense and The Pittsburgh School of Philosophy: Sellars, McDowell, Brandom
The Pittsburgh School of Philosophy: Sellars, McDowell, BrandomPlant Minds: A Philosophical Defense

  • Title

    Plant Minds: A Philosophical Defense

  • Author

    Chauncey Maher

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    June 2017

  • Weight

    318g

  • Page Count

    144

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781138739192

  • ISBN-10

    1138739197

  • Eden Code

    6115322