The Metaphysics of Mind

The Metaphysics of Mind
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 164
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ISBN-10 : 0192830708
ISBN-13 : 9780192830708
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Synopsis The Metaphysics of Mind by : Anthony Kenny

Brings together in a systematic way Anthony Kenny's work in the philosopy of mind. It is intended as a sustained attack on a false view of the mind, the Cartesian view, and a demonstration that clarity is impossible without good metaphysics

The metaphysics of mind

The metaphysics of mind
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Total Pages : 164
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Synopsis The metaphysics of mind by : Anthony John Patrick Kenny

The Metaphysics of Mind

The Metaphysics of Mind
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Total Pages : 165
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ISBN-10 : 0191670529
ISBN-13 : 9780191670527
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Synopsis The Metaphysics of Mind by : Anthony Kenny

Brings together in a systematic way Anthony Kenny's work in the philosopy of mind. It is intended as a sustained attack on a false view of the mind, the Cartesian view, and a demonstration that clarity is impossible without good metaphysics.

Structure and the Metaphysics of Mind

Structure and the Metaphysics of Mind
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 9780198749561
ISBN-13 : 0198749562
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Synopsis Structure and the Metaphysics of Mind by : William Jaworski

Structure and the Metaphysics of Mind is the first book to show how hylomorphism can be used to solve mind-body problems--persistent problems understanding how thought, feeling, perception, and other mental phenomena fit into the physical world described by our best science. Hylomorphism claims that structure is a basic ontological and explanatory principle. Some individuals, paradigmatically living things, consist of materials that are structured or organized in various ways. Those structures are responsible for individuals being the kinds of things they are, and having the kinds of powers or capacities they have. From a hylomorphic perspective, mind-body problems are byproducts of a worldview that rejects structure. Hylomorphic structure carves out distinctive individuals from the otherwise undifferentiated sea of matter and energy described by our best physics, and it confers on those individuals distinctive powers, including the powers to think, feel, and perceive. A worldview that rejects hylomorphic structure lacks a basic principle which distinguishes the parts of the physical universe that can think, feel, and perceive from those that can't, and without such a principle, the existence of those powers in the physical world can start to look inexplicable and mysterious. But if mental phenomena are structural phenomena, as hylomorphism claims, then they are uncontroversially part of the physical world, for on the hylomorphic view, structure is uncontroversially part of the physical world. Hylomorphism thus provides an elegant way of solving mind-body problems.

Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind

Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : 9780191625060
ISBN-13 : 019162506X
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Synopsis Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind by : Jaegwon Kim

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.

Having Thought

Having Thought
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 402
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ISBN-10 : 9780674004153
ISBN-13 : 0674004159
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Synopsis Having Thought by : John Haugeland

The unifying theme of these thirteen essays is understanding. Haugeland addresses mind and intelligence; intelligibility; analog and digital systems and supervenience; presuppositions about the foundational notions of intentionality and representation; and the essential character of understanding in relation to what is understood.

Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Mind
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9780429974489
ISBN-13 : 0429974485
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Synopsis Philosophy of Mind by : Jaegwon Kim

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.

Personal Agency

Personal Agency
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9780191550904
ISBN-13 : 0191550906
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Synopsis Personal Agency by : E. J. Lowe

Personal Agency consists of two parts. In Part II, a radically libertarian theory of action is defended which combines aspects of agent causalism and volitionism. This theory accords to volitions the status of basic mental actions, maintaining that these are spontaneous exercises of the will—a 'two-way' power which rational agents can freely exercise in the light of reason. Lowe contends that substances, not events, are the causal source of all change in the world—with rational, free agents like ourselves having a special place in the causal order as unmoved movers, or initiators of new causal chains. And he defends a thoroughgoing externalism regarding reasons for action, holding these to be mind-independent worldly entities rather than the beliefs and desires of agents. Part I prepares the ground for this theory by undermining the threat presented to it by physicalism. It does this by challenging the causal closure argument for physicalism in all of its forms and by showing that a dualistic philosophy of mind—one which holds that human mental states and their subjects cannot be identified with bodily states and human bodies respectively—is both metaphysically coherent and entirely consistent with known empirical facts.

The Metaphysics of Mind

The Metaphysics of Mind
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Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B4385917
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Synopsis The Metaphysics of Mind by : Michael Tye

In this provocative book, Michael Tye presents his unique account of the metaphysical foundations of psychological discourse. In place of token identity theory or eliminative materialism, he advocates a generalisation of the adverbial approach to sensory experience, the 'operator theory'. He applies this to the analysis of prepositional attitudes, arguing that mental statements cannot involve reference to mental events or objects and that therefore causal statements about the mental cannot be regarded as asserting relations between events. This adverbial theory has the virtue of being both simple and systematic and is an important contribution to the philosophy of mind.

The Metaphysics of Mind

The Metaphysics of Mind
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 142
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ISBN-10 : 9781108944205
ISBN-13 : 1108944205
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Synopsis The Metaphysics of Mind by : Janet Levin

The Metaphysics of Mind presents and discusses the major contemporary theories of the nature of mind, including Dualism, Physicalism, Role-Functionalism, Russellian Monism, Panpsychism, and Eliminativism. Its primary goal is to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the theories in question, including their prospects for explaining the special qualitative character of sensations and perceptual experiences, the special outer-directedness of beliefs, desires, and other intentional states, and—more generally—the place of mind in the world of nature, and the relation between mental states and the behaviors that they (seem to) cause. It also discusses, briefly, some further questions about the metaphysics of mind, namely, whether groups of individuals, or entire communities, can possess mental states that cannot be reduced to the mental states of the individuals in those communities, and whether the boundaries between mind and world are as sharp as they may seem.