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almahu_9949982443802882
Format:
1 online resource (516 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780443330513
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0443330514
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Intro -- The Whole Person: Toward a Naturalism of Minds and Persons -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Short contents -- Contents -- Preface -- Naturalism and emergence -- Introduction -- Are persons natural? -- Conceptual barriers -- Previews -- A high-level overview -- Thematic surview -- Some further preview notes -- Naturalism -- Initial understandings -- Temporal explanation -- Substance integrations -- Naturalism as a presupposition of inquiry -- Naturalism and metaphysics -- Contemporary naturalisms -- Explanatory closure -- Background metaphysics and epistemology -- Metaphysics: From substance to process -- Substance presuppositions and their implications -- Heuristic substance approaches -- Problems with substances -- Problems with substances: Inherent ad hoc mystery -- Problems with substances: Origins -- Problems with substances: Interrelationships -- Problems with substances: Inertness -- Problems with substances: Stability -- Escape from substances: They dont exist -- Process metaphysics -- Transcending substance problems -- Contemporary science -- Nature -- Origins -- Emergence -- Relations among basic (substances) -- Stability and inertness -- Process models -- Epistemology: From passive to active -- The problem of representation: Mental representation -- Representational issues: Toward a philosophy of science (for understanding the mind and persons) -- Problems of representational origin and content in the philosophy of science -- An irony: Metaphysics blocking metaphysics -- Evolutionary epistemology -- Through the twentieth century and the contemporary scene -- Some preliminary notes on metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology -- The historical heritage -- Nature and norm: A metaphysical split -- Pre-Socratic beginnings -- Aristotle -- Aristotle and the substance tradition -- Substance: Aristotle and after.
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The meta-meta-physics of substance -- Into the modern era -- Descartes -- Hume -- Kant: Anti-naturalism -- anti-psychologism -- The 19th century setting -- Frege -- Positivism -- Idealism -- Analytic philosophy and logical positivism -- A note on extrusion -- Russell -- Anti-Kantianism -- Wittgenstein, logic, and positivism -- Philosophy and science -- Naturalism and normativity in the early 20th century -- Logical positivism and science -- Schlick, Carnap, and implicit definition -- Wittgensteins divergence -- Logical positivism and semantics -- Quine: Demolition from within -- Whence the philosophy of science? -- Is rationality a myth? Contemporary idealisms -- No resolution -- In the wreckage -- Substance, fact, cause -- Naturalism without normativity -- Psychology: Behaviorism and psychoanalysis -- Behaviorism and positivism -- Normativity in psychology -- Psychoanalysis -- Cognitive science -- The end of the century -- Metaphysics and emergence -- A broader metaphysical landscape -- Barriers to modeling emergence -- The logical form of ``no `ought from `is´´ -- Implicit definition -- Beths theorem -- Kims argument: The causal efficacy of emergents -- Dilemma: Naturalism or emergence -- A false (and incoherent) assumption -- (Quantum) fields, not particles -- The relevance of organization -- The pre-emption argument -- Some broader problems -- Emergence in organizations of processes -- Some further notes on process metaphysics -- Supervenience -- Relational properties -- Mereological bases -- Are relations part of the base? -- Humean Supervenience -- Functionalization -- Boundaries -- Identity and individuation -- Cause -- Events -- Levels -- Evaluating models of emergences -- Conclusion: Process and emergence -- Biological foundations -- Overview of biological foundations -- Biology as self-organizing emergent process -- Self-organization.
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The emergence of primitive autonomy -- Autopoiesis and enactivism -- Enactivism -- The ``organizational approach´´ -- The emergence of biological evolution -- Overview of some general dynamic interrelationships -- Dynamic landscapes, attractors, niches -- Influence, constraint, historicity, selection -- Evolution of nested and distributed autonomies -- The modulation of metabolism -- Multicellularity -- Ontogenetic development -- More on DNA as regulatory resource -- Hierarchical structuring of spaces of potential regulation -- Hierarchical entrenchment -- Enabling hierarchies -- Sex -- Muscle, bone, nerve -- The emergence of normativity -- Biological function -- Contrast: Etiological models of function -- Epiphenomenality elaborated -- Two additional problems -- Elaborating the dynamic model of function -- Serving a function and having a function -- Error can be functional -- Parts -- Multifunctionality and distributedness -- Naturalized normativity -- A few elucidations and responses to challenges -- The function of control -- Homeostasis and (recursive) self-maintenance -- Some cybernetics -- A comparison between homeostasis and recursive self-maintenance -- The emergence of representational normativity -- The emergence of truth value: Success in agency -- The emergence of truth value: Agentic predication -- The emergence of truth value: Content -- Two challenges: Object representation and sensory representations -- More complex representation -- Elaborations of the basic interactive model -- Representing objects -- What about sensory ``representations´´? -- Analyses of alternative models of representation -- Encodingism -- Incoherence -- Circularity -- Homunculus -- External homunculi -- Externally related content -- Two- and three-part models of representation -- How to account for the possibility of error -- Russell and encoding error.
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Naming and descriptions -- Briefly on direct reference -- Organism detectable error -- Skepticism and idealism -- Too many correspondences -- Copy argument -- Emergence -- Encodingism mazes and tangles -- Indexicality? -- Representation still resists naturalization -- Millikan -- Circularity -- Dretske -- Extended mind -- Fodor -- Cummins -- Artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and cognitive psychology -- Artificial normativity? -- Cognitive psychology -- Some properties of representation -- Emergence -- Future orientation -- Anticipation -- Do we anticipate inputs? -- Modality -- Implicitness -- The frame problems -- Explicitness -- Explicit representation -- Internal relations -- Implicit definition -- Representational error -- System-detectable representational error -- Radical skepticism -- Partition epistemology -- Differentiation and implicit definition -- Contact and content -- Informational encodings? -- Pragmatism -- Monism? -- Desiderata for models of representation -- Conceptual analysis -- Is the interactivist model necessary as an account of representation? -- A macroevolutionary ratchet: Basic species capacities for Homo Sapiens -- Interactive knowing -- Aspects and specializations -- Motivation -- Perception -- Interactive model of perception -- Gibson -- Situation image and apperception -- External representations -- Some comments on Kant -- Logical empiricism -- Microgenesis -- Learning -- The dynamics of learning as variation and selective retention -- Normativity -- Microgenesis and anticipation -- A step in the ratchet -- Microgenetic anticipatory success as the ``engine´´ of learning -- Habituation -- Classical conditioning -- Pain -- Back to classical conditioning -- Instrumental conditioning -- Incidental learning -- More complex learning -- A perspective on memory -- Emotions: A functionally emergent perspective.
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Increased adaptability of emotions -- Warrant for models of emotions -- Positive and negative emotions -- Simple approach-avoidance -- The ratchet again -- Reflective consciousness -- Warrant for identification as reflective consciousness -- Minds and persons: Aspects, specializations, developments, and further emergents -- The mentality of Homo Sapiens -- Further elaborations of interactive knowing -- Some situation knowledge organizational principles -- Presuppositions again -- Higher order motivation -- Problem-solving elaborations -- Learning normativity -- Curiosity and other emotion emergent motivation -- Values: Reflection and motivation -- Themes -- Microgenesis: Some micro-scale and functional considerations -- Microgenesis at the micro-level -- Volume transmission and gap junctions -- Silent neurons, glia, and extra-cellular space -- Synapses: Resonance phenomena and other scaled phenomena -- Micro-neural realization of microgenesis -- And also in reverse -- The central nervous system as a dynamic system -- CNS attractor landscapes and their dynamics -- Functional indication and microgenetic activation -- Functional indication -- Microgenetic dynamics -- Minimal agency and action -- Action for nervous systems -- Agency and central nervous system microgenesis -- Thinking and conceptualizing -- Thinking -- Microgenetic self-organization -- Free processes -- Concepts -- Non-reflective -- Family resemblance concepts -- Small objects -- Particulars -- Canonical particulars -- Collections -- Dynamic context sensitivity -- Prototypes -- Vagueness -- Reflective -- Necessary and sufficient conditions -- Conceptual implicit definition -- Natural kinds -- Sets and elements -- Concepts as ideals -- Further forms of conceptualization -- Holism -- Indexicality -- The literature on concepts -- Classical models -- Probabilistic models.
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Theory-based models.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780443330506
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0443330506
Language:
English
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