Mental Causation And The Metaphysics Of Mind
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Physicalism And Mental Causation
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Author : Sven Walter
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2015-11-04
Physicalism And Mental Causation written by Sven Walter and has been published by Andrews UK Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-04 with Philosophy categories.
Physicalism—the thesis that everything there is in the world, including our minds, is constituted by basic physical entities—has dominated the philosophy of mind during the last few decades. But although the conceptual foundations of the physicalist agenda—including a proper explication of notions such as ‘causation’, ‘determination’, ‘realization’ or even ‘physicalism’ itself—must be settled before more specific problems (e.g. the problems of mental causation and human agency) can be satisfactorily addressed, a comprehensive philosophical reflection on the relationships between the various key concepts of the debate on physicalism is yet missing. This book presents a range of essays on the conceptual foundations of physicalism, mental causation and human agency, written by established and leading authors in the field.
Mental Causation And The Metaphysics Of Mind
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Author : Neil Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2003-01-02
Mental Causation And The Metaphysics Of Mind written by Neil Campbell and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-02 with Philosophy categories.
Since Descartes’s division of the human subject into mental and physical components in the seventeenth century, there has been a great deal of discussion about how—indeed, whether or not—our mental states bring about our physical behavior. Through historical and contemporary readings, this collection explores this lively and important issue. In four parts, this anthology introduces the problem of mental causation, explores the debate sparked by Donald Davidson’s anomalous monism, examines Frank Jackson’s knowledge argument for the view that qualia are epiphenomenal, and investigates attempts to employ the controversial concept of supervenience to explain mental causation.
Mental Causation And Ontology
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Author : S. C. Gibb
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-21
Mental Causation And Ontology written by S. C. Gibb and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-21 with Philosophy categories.
This book demonstrates the importance of ontology for a central debate in philosophy of mind. Mental causation seems an obvious aspect of the world. But it is hard to understand how it can happen unless we get clear about what the entities involved in the process are. An international team of contributors presents new work on this problem.
Mind In A Physical World
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Author : Jaegwon Kim
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2000
Mind In A Physical World written by Jaegwon Kim and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. Kim construes the mind-body problem as that of finding a place for the mind in a world that is fundamentally physical. Among other points, he redefines the roles of supervenience and emergence in the discussion of the mind-body problem. Arguing that various contemporary accounts of mental causation are inadequate, he offers his own partially reductionist solution on the basis of a novel model of reduction. Retaining the informal tone of the lecture format, the book is clear yet sophisticated.
Mental Causation
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Author : Anthony Dardis
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2008
Mental Causation written by Anthony Dardis and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Two thousand years ago, Lucretius said that everything is atoms in the void; it's physics all the way down. Contemporary physicalism agrees. But if that's so how can we--how can our thoughts, emotions, our values--make anything happen in the physical world? This conceptual knot, the mental causation problem, is the core of the mind-body problem, closely connected to the problems of free will, consciousness, and intentionality. Anthony Dardis shows how to unravel the knot. He traces its early appearance in the history of philosophical inquiry, specifically in the work of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and T. H. Huxley. He then develops a metaphysical framework for a theory of causation, laws of nature, and the causal relevance of properties. Using this framework, Dardis explains how macro, or higher level, properties can be causally relevant in the same way that microphysical properties are causally relevant: by their relationship with the laws of nature. Smelling an orange, choosing the orange rather than the cheesecake, reaching for the one on the left instead of the one on the right-mental properties such as these take their place alongside the physical "motor of the world" in making things happen.
Mental Causation
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Author : Jens Harbecke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Mental Causation written by Jens Harbecke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Philosophy categories.
This work systematically investigates a range of solutions forthe philosophical problem of mental causation. The premisesconstituting the problem are analyzed, then a survey is developedof the most popular theories on mental causation. Harbeckedemonstrates why most of these canonical solutions must beconsidered deficient. In a third part, the "new compatibilists"approach to mental causation is explored, which is characterizedby assertion of a non-identity-but-non-distinctness principle.The last part offers an alternative solution to the problem. Onthe basis of a certain set of counterfactual conditionals, which arejointly taken to provide a definition of "causal proportionality"that improves the existing definitions, it is shown that a specific,and hitherto widely neglected, version of causal overdeterminationismmust be considered the most successful solution tothe problem.
Essays In The Metaphysics Of Mind
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Author : Jaegwon Kim
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-10-21
Essays In The Metaphysics Of Mind written by Jaegwon Kim and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-21 with Philosophy categories.
Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades. The volume includes three new essays, on an agent-centered first-person account of action explanation, the concepts of realization and their bearings on the mind-body problem, and the nonexistence of laws in the special sciences. Among other topics covered are emergence and emergentism, the nature of explanation and of theories of explanation, reduction and reductive explanation, mental causation and explanatory exclusion. Kim tackles questions such as: How should we understand the concept of "emergence", and what are the prospects of emergentism as a doctrine about the status of minds? What does an agent-centered, first-person account of explanation of human actions look like? Why aren't there strict laws in the special sciences - sciences like biology, psychology, and sociology? The essays will be accessible to attentive readers without an extensive philosophical background.
Mental Causation
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Author : Jens Harbecke
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-05-02
Mental Causation written by Jens Harbecke and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Philosophy categories.
This work is a systematic investigation of a range of solutions offered today for the philosophical problem of mental causation. The premises constituting the problem are analyzed before a survey is developed of the most popular theories on mental causation. It is demonstrated in detail why most of these canonical solutions must be considered deficient. In a third part, the 'new compatibilist’s' approach to mental causation is explored, which is characterized by assertion of a non-identity-but-non-distinctness principle. The last part aims to offer an alternative solution to the problem. On the basis of a certain set of counterfactual conditionals, which are jointly taken to provide a definition of 'causal proportionality' that improves the existing definitions, it is shown that a specific, and hitherto widely neglected, version of causal overdeterminationism must be considered the most successful solution to the problem of mental causation.
Philosophy Of Mind
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Author : Jaegwon Kim
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-04-19
Philosophy Of Mind written by Jaegwon Kim and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-19 with Philosophy categories.
This book explores a range of issues in the philosophy of mind, with the mind-body problem as the main focus. It serves as a stimulus to the reader to engage with the problems of the mind and try to come to terms with them, and examines Descartes's mind-body dualism.
Mental Causation
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Author : Thomas Kroedel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-12-19
Mental Causation written by Thomas Kroedel and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-19 with Philosophy categories.
Presents a comprehensive account of how the mind causes things to happen in the physical world. This book is also available as Open Access.