UID:
almahu_9947414855302882
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 294 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511687068 (ebook)
Inhalt:
The type identity theory, according to which types of mental state are identical to types of physical state, fell out of favour for some years but is now being considered with renewed interest. Many philosophers are critically re-examining the arguments which were marshalled against it, finding in the type identity theory both resources to strengthen a comprehensive, physicalistic metaphysics and a useful tool in understanding the relationship between developments in psychology and new results in neuroscience. This volume brings together leading philosophers of mind, whose essays challenge in new ways the standard objections to type identity theory, such as the multiple realizability objection and the modal argument. Other essays show how cognitive science and neuroscience are lending new support to type identity theory and still others provide, extend and improve traditional arguments concerning the theory's explanatory power.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction /
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Acquaintance and the mind-body problem /
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Identity, reduction, and conserved mechanisms: perspectives from circadian rhythm research /
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Property identity and reductive explanation /
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A brief history of neuroscience's actual influences on mind-brain reductionism /
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Type-identity conditions for phenomenal properties /
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Locating qualia: do they reside in the brain or in the body and the world? /
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In defense of the identity theory Mark I /
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The very idea of token physicalism /
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About face: philosophical naturalism, the heuristic identity theory, and recent findings about prosopagnosia /
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On justifying neurobiologicalism for consciousness /
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The causal contribution of mental events /
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Return of the zombies? /
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Identity, variability, and multiple realization in the special sciences /
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9781107000148
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511687068
