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Minds, Causes and Mechanisms

Autor Corbi, Prades
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 feb 2000
Minds, Causes, and Mechanisms questions the internal consistency of causal physicalism, and vindicates a novel approach to mental causation.
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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

Public țintă

students and researchers in philosophy of mind, epistemology and metaphysics

Notă 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.

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.