Background
He went to Cordwalles Preparatory School in Pietermaritzburg (68-70) where his father, Ronald Charles Brooks, was headmaster. Brooks was born in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal.
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Publications Posthumous publication on research into the Enneagram of Personality. (Brooks, David, "Are personality traits inherited?" South African Journal of Science, Jan 1998, Vol 94, p9) Brooks, D. H. M. (1981). Memories and the world.
Analysis 41 (June):141-145. Brooks, D. H. M. (1985). Strawson, Hume, and the unity of consciousness. Mind 94 (October):583-86. Brooks, D. H. M. (1986).
Group minds. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 64 (December):456-70. Brooks, D. H. M. (1992). Secondary qualities and representation. Analysis 52 (3):174-179. Brooks, D. H. M. (1994).
How to perform a reduction. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (4):803-14. Reduction comes to supervenience plus explicability. Thus biconditionals, multiple realizability, etc., are irrelevant.
Biology is already reduced (mostly via functional explanation), and psychology looks promising. Nice. Brooks, D. H. M. (1995). The Unity of the Mind.
St Martin's Press. Brooks, David (1980). The impossibility of psycho-physical laws. Philosophical Papers 9 (October):21-45. Brooks, David (1995).
Cartesian inner space. South African Journal of Philosophy 14 (4):135-144. Brooks, David (2000). How to solve the hard problem: A predictable inexplicability.
Psyche 6 (4):5-20.
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He then went to Michaelhouse (64-67) and on to university in Pietermaritzburg. His second degree was his Master of Arts at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and his doctorate was from the University of Cape Town. He died in Cape Town on 27 October 1996.
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Publications Posthumous publication on research into the Enneagram of Personality. (Brooks, David, "Are personality traits inherited?" South African Journal of Science, Jan 1998, Vol 94, p9) Brooks, D. H. M. (1981). Memories and the world.
Analysis 41 (June):141-145. Brooks, D. H. M. (1985). Strawson, Hume, and the unity of consciousness. Mind 94 (October):583-86. Brooks, D. H. M. (1986).
Group minds. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 64 (December):456-70. Brooks, D. H. M. (1992). Secondary qualities and representation. Analysis 52 (3):174-179. Brooks, D. H. M. (1994).
How to perform a reduction. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (4):803-14. Reduction comes to supervenience plus explicability. Thus biconditionals, multiple realizability, etc., are irrelevant.
Biology is already reduced (mostly via functional explanation), and psychology looks promising. Nice. Brooks, D. H. M. (1995). The Unity of the Mind.
St Martin's Press. Brooks, David (1980). The impossibility of psycho-physical laws. Philosophical Papers 9 (October):21-45. Brooks, David (1995).
Cartesian inner space. South African Journal of Philosophy 14 (4):135-144. Brooks, David (2000). How to solve the hard problem: A predictable inexplicability.
Psyche 6 (4):5-20.
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