Reduction : between the mind and the brain / Alexander Hieke, Hannes Leitgeb
(Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. New series ; ; v. 12)
Material Type | E-Book |
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Publication | Heusenstamm [Germany] : Ontos , 2009 |
Language | English |
Size | 1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations |
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Contents | I.between the mind ... ; enough with thenorms already!jerry fodor; intentionality, information, and experience johannes l. brandl; acceptance as conditional disposition fabio paglieri; ii ... and ... ; "supervenient and yet not deducible": is there a coherent concept ofontological emergence?*jaegwon kim; non-reductive physicalism, mental causationand the nature of actions markus e. schlosser; soritical series and fisher series paul égré; the elimination of meaning in computational theories of mind paul schweizer; iii ... the brain; neuropsychologicalfoundations of philosophy patrick suppes |
Notes | Open Access The investigation of the mind has been one of the major concerns of our philosophical tradition and it still is a dominant subject in modern philosophy as well as in science. Many philosophers in the scientific tradition want to solve the ""puzzles of the mind"". But many philosophers in the very same tradition do regard these puzzles as puzzles of the brain. So, whilst the former think of the mental as something of its own kind, the latter deny that philosophy of mind has to do with anything else but the brain. And then there are those who think that reduction is the way to go: maybe the ment Includes bibliographical references English |
Authors | *Hieke, Alexander. Leitgeb, Hannes. |
Subjects | LCSH:Thought and thinking LCSH:Mind and body BISACSH:PHILOSOPHY -- Mind & Body All Subject Search FREE:Mind and body FREE:Thought and thinking BSH:Electronic books |
Classification | DC:128.2 |
ID | ED00002216 |
ISBN | 9783110328851 |