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Title: Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind by Paul M. Churchland, Ernest Sosa, Jonathan Dancy, John Haldane, Gilbert Harman, Frank Jackson, William G. Lucan ISBN: 0-521-22632-5 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 12 July, 1979 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $59.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: Quite Interesting
Comment: This thin book is jam-packed with rigorous philosophical prose on quite interesting topics relating to contemporary discussions on perceptual knowledge, self-knowledge, and the M-B Problem. I highly recommend this (along with his Neurophilosophy) and Sellars' EPM.

Churchland is a U Pitt veteran, so this book is relevant to current Sellars-McDowell-Brandom discussions in the philosophy of mind. I would not say that this book presents his main arguments in favor of eliminative materialism (which is good).

The most important material here, in my opinion, is in Ch 2: "The Plasticity of Perception" (section 3--the conceptual exploitation of sensory information) and Ch 3: "The Plasticity of Understanding" (section 8--meaning and understanding; section 11--intertheoretic reduction and conceptual progress).

I also recommend: Rosenthal, The Nature of the Mind (Oxford UP); Searle, Rediscovery of the Mind; as well as Sellars and Bas Van Frassen; Lance-O'Hawthorne, Language of Grammar (Cambridge UP).