Minds, Causes and Mechanisms
Autor Corbi, Pradesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 feb 2000
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780631218029
ISBN-10: 0631218025
Pagini: 284
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0631218025
Pagini: 284
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom
Public țintă
students and researchers in philosophy of mind, epistemology and metaphysicsNotă biografică
Josep E. Corbi was born in Monover, Spain in 1957. He has been a lecturer at the University of Valencia since 1980, and has published several papers on the philosophy of mind and epistemology. Josep L. Prades was born in Valencia, Spain in 1954. He taught philosophy at the University of Murcia and is presently a lecturer at the University of Girona. He has published several studies of Wittgenstein's philosophy and papers on the philosophy of mind and epistemology.
Cuprins
Acknowledgements. Introduction.
1. Physicalism and the Mental: The Dominant View.
2. An Initial Tension: Narrowness and Multiple Realization.
3. Dispositions, Minimality, and Intrinsic Causal Powers.
4. 'Ceteris Paribus' Laws and the Autonomy of Nonbasic Properties.
5. Strict Laws, Causes, and Background Conditions.
6. Mental Causation.
Notes.
References.
Index.
1. Physicalism and the Mental: The Dominant View.
2. An Initial Tension: Narrowness and Multiple Realization.
3. Dispositions, Minimality, and Intrinsic Causal Powers.
4. 'Ceteris Paribus' Laws and the Autonomy of Nonbasic Properties.
5. Strict Laws, Causes, and Background Conditions.
6. Mental Causation.
Notes.
References.
Index.
Descriere
This text questions the internal consistency of causal physicalism and vindicates a novel approach to mental causation. The volume includes a lucid discussion of recent developments by philosophers such as Block, Davidson, Mellor, Putnam, Shoemaker and Yablo.