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Jul 11, 2012 · A pictorial history of the silent screen : Blum, Daniel C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Blum, Daniel C. Publication date. 1953. Topics. Motion Pictures. Publisher. New York : G. P. Putman's Sons. Collection. mediahistory; americana; nilesfilmmuseum. Contributor. Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum. Language. English.
A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen. by. Daniel Blum. Publication date. 1953-01-01. Publisher. Grosset & Dunlap. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled.
- INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
- Rebus Community
- INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES
- OVERVIEW OF THE SERIES
- PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
- HEATHER SALAZAR, BOOK EDITOR
- CHRISTINA HENDRICKS, SERIES EDITOR
- THE TRADITIONAL CONCEPT OF SUBSTANCE
- THE IMMATERIAL NATURE OF THE SOUL
- INTRODUCTION
- CONCLUSION
- INTRODUCTION: TWO MONSTERS WE MUST AVOID
- AVOIDING MATERIALISM
- AVOIDING BEHAVIORISM
- NO TURNING BACK: THE MIND IS NATURAL
- NOTHING’S SHOCKING: THE FUNCTIONALIST MIND IS A NATURAL MIND
- MULTIPLE REALIZABILITY
- REAL CAUSE: THE FUNCTIONALIST MIND CAUSES BEHAVIOR
- OBJECTIONS TO FUNCTIONALISM
- CONCLUSION
- KINDS OF PROPERTY DUALISM
- INTRODUCTION: WHAT ARE QUALIA?
- QUALIA AND THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM
- SKEPTICISM ABOUT QUALIA
- CONCLUSION
- THEORIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- INTERNALIST SEMANTICS
- INTRODUCTION: ARE WE FREE?
- DETERMINISM AND FREEDOM
- THREE VIEWS OF FREEDOM
- CHAPTER AUTHORS
- PEER REVIEWER
- OTHER CONTRIBUTORS
ERAN ASOULIN; PAUL RICHARD BLUM; TONY CHENG; DANIEL HAAS; JASON NEWMAN; HENRY SHEVLIN; ELLY VINTIADIS; HEATHER SALAZAR (EDITOR); AND CHRISTINA HENDRICKS (SERIES EDITOR)
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CHRISTINA HENDRICKS This book is part of the Introduction to Philosophy open textbook series, a set of nine (and counting?) open access textbooks that are designed to be used for introductory-level, survey courses in philosophy at the post-secondary level.
This set of books is meant to provide an introduction to some of the major topic areas often covered in introductory-level philosophy courses. I have found in teaching students new to philosophy that many struggle with the new ideas, questions, and approaches they find in introductory courses in philosophy, and that it can be helpful to provide the...
ADRIANO PALMA In a breezy introduction to the philosophy of mind edited by Heather Salazar, the beginner reader is immersed in an easy way into issues that are not otherwise easy to grasp, such as why one must interpret differently “taking the child back to the zoo” and “taking the car back to the zoo,” and what makes it very hard to tell a vegetar...
Everyone who worked on this book generously donated their time and expertise to ensure that students in philosophy of mind have an engaging and well-researched contemporary introduction that is freely accessible. This book is a part of a series that was envisioned by Christina Hendricks. Her foresight, flexibility, and cooperation were essential in...
I would like to thank the authors in this book for their patience as we worked through the process of conceiving the book and getting it to publication. Because this is the first book to be published in the Introduction to Philosophy open textbook series, we were sometimes creating processes and workflows as we went along, and this meant things may...
Descartes’ philosophy of mind was a response to the erosion of the traditional Aristotelian concept of substance after the Middle Ages. According to the Aristotelian view, any substance is composed of matter that is determined by the form that is its essence. So every living thing is a body conjoined with its soul (namely, what makes it alive as su...
Descartes attempts to reconcile having an immaterial soul within a largely scientific (and physicalist) framework. This leads to some surprising turns within his theory that are quite different from previous theories on substances. Ultimately, Descartes’ view is dualist because, although he renders all earthly substances material (and understandabl...
In stark contrast to Cartesian substance dualism is materialism. Materialism denies the existence of a “mind” as an entity separate from the body. According to materialism, the concept of “mind” is a relic of the past from before a time of scientific understanding and when used today is only properly shorthand for “brain” or “behavior.” Materialism...
Today, materialist and behaviorist views enjoy prominence in the sciences, but not in philosophy. Biologists and neuroscientists are working hard to uncover the mysteries of behavior and the brain. Each time they learn more information, they help build a better basis for a purely empirical philosophy of mind. But empirical research alone will never...
While passing through the Strait of Messina, between mainland Italy and the isle of Sicily, Homer has Odysseus come upon two monsters, Scylla and Charybdis, one on either side of the strait. If Odysseus is to pass through the strait, he must choose between two very unhappy options; for if he averts one along the way, he will move in the other’s mon...
One the one side we have materialism, which we must avoid because there appears to be no strict identity between mental states and brain states. Even though human Freya is different than a wild rabbit in many interesting ways, we think they can both be in physical pain. Suppose that while restringing her guitar, Freya lodges a rogue metal splinter ...
Now we look bleary-eyed in the direction of behaviorism. But here, too, we find a suspicious identity claim—this time between mental states, like Freya’s belief that her house is gray, and behavioral states or dispositions to behave in certain circumstances. For example, if Freya were asked what color her house is, she would be disposed to answer, ...
The goal is to formulate an alternative to the above two theories of mind that nevertheless both make a promise worth making: to treat the mind as something wholly a part of the natural world. From the failures of materialism and behaviorism, we must not turn back to a problematic Cartesian dualist view of mind and matter (discussed in Chapter 1), ...
The functionalist says if we conceive of mental stuff in this way—namely, as fundamentally inputs and outputs in a complex, but wholly natural system—then we get to observe the reality of the mind, and the reality of our mental lives. We get to avoid any genuine worries about mental stuff being too spooky, or about how it could possibly interact wi...
Let us use a thought experiment of our own to illustrate the functionalist’s theory of mind. Imagine Freya cooks a warm Sunday breakfast for herself and sits on a patio table in the spring sun to enjoy it. Freya’s belief that “my tofu scramble is on the table before me” is to be understood roughly like this: as the OUTPUT of one mental state, her s...
Finally, we saw that our mental states cannot be counted as the causes of our behavior on a behaviorist view, since on that view of mind, mental states are nothing over and above our behavior (or, dispositions to behave in certain ways in certain circumstances). In an effort to disenchant the mind in general and individual minds in particular, and ...
Now that we have seen some of the major points in favor of the theory, let us have a look at some of the worries that have been raised against functionalism. The Chinese Room John Searle argues against a version of functionalism he calls “strong” artificial intelligence, or “strong AI” In “Minds, Brains and Programs,” Searle develops a thought expe...
We have not considered all the possible objections to functionalism, nor have we considered more sophisticated versions of functionalism that aim to get around the more pernicious objections we have considered. The idea that minds really are kinds of computing machines is still very much alive and as controversial as ever. Taking that idea seriousl...
Property dualism can be divided into two kinds. The first kind of property dualism says that there are two kinds of properties, mental and physical, but mental properties are dependent on physical properties. This dependence is usually described in terms of the relation of supervenience. The basic idea of supervenience is that a property, A, superv...
As I sit writing this sentence, I am enjoying a wealth of experiences. In front of me, the sky is full of the pink and blue hues of approaching sunset dashed with white clouds. Tropical birds chitter in high-pitched trills, while a pair of dogs utter guttural barks at each other. My skin alternately prickles with the last lingering heat of the day,...
One reason qualia have so fascinated philosophers is that they are arguably hard to explain in standard scientific terms. Many of us have probably heard neuroscientists talking about things like synapses, neurons, and different regions of the brain. It is perhaps not too difficult to see how this kind of scientific approach might explain various as...
We have been talking in this chapter about qualia as though their existence, at least, was uncontroversial. In one sense, that is surely true: no one could deny that we genuinely experience colors and tastes, for example. Some philosophers remain skeptical about qualia, however, insisting that the very idea is a confused one. The philosopher Daniel...
Qualia remain one of the deepest puzzles in all of philosophy, and this chapter has only offered a cursory survey of some of the most important debates in which they feature. Even while science has given us tremendous new insights into difficult questions like the origins of the universe and the human genome, the problem of how to explain qualia se...
Block seeks to dissociate P- and A-consciousness. He has several argumentative lines; the most relevant one has it that P-consciousness cannot be explained by representational contents. To understand what this amounts to, one needs to have some basic grip on what representational contents are. Again, examples will help. Two beliefs are different be...
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Nate Angell (formatting contributor) is an evangelist who connects people, ideas, and technologies to make things better. He has worked across a wide variety of public and private institutions, focusing on community development, digital communications, meaningful education, open technologies, and sustainable growth. Colleen Cressman (copy editor) i...
Nate Angell (formatting contributor) is an evangelist who connects people, ideas, and technologies to make things better. He has worked across a wide variety of public and private institutions, focusing on community development, digital communications, meaningful education, open technologies, and sustainable growth. Colleen Cressman (copy editor) i...
Nate Angell (formatting contributor) is an evangelist who connects people, ideas, and technologies to make things better. He has worked across a wide variety of public and private institutions, focusing on community development, digital communications, meaningful education, open technologies, and sustainable growth. Colleen Cressman (copy editor) i...
First published 65 years ago, this Daniel Blum extravaganza is an entertaining and indispensable guide to the Silent Screen. With 3000 rare and unique film stills and portraits of everybody that was anybody in the grand old days before the movies "lost their way" and became talkies.
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Daniel C. Blum has 22 books on Goodreads with 251 ratings. Daniel C. Blum’s most popular book is A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen.
This book neatly divides into appropriate chapters on eight key topics in contemporary philosophy of mind. Each chapter is usefully divided into an introduction, the main subsections, and a conclusion.
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