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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782735203321

Autore

Hanna Robert <1957->

Titolo

Embodied minds in action [[electronic resource] /] / Robert Hanna and Michelle Maiese

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-383-03645-4

1-281-93083-0

9786611930837

0-19-155217-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (431 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MaieseMichelle

Disciplina

128

Soggetti

Philosophy of mind

Cognitive neuroscience

Mind and body

Causation

Act (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-404) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface and Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; 1. Consciousness[sub(lo)] and Essential Embodiment I: The Basics; 2. Consciousness[sub(lo)] and Essential Embodiment II: Types and Structures; 3. Essentially Embodied Agency I: Actions, Causes, and Reasons; 4. Essentially Embodied Agency II: Guidance and Trying; 5. Essentially Embodied Agency III: Emotive Causation; 6. The Metaphysics of Agency I: The Problem of Mental Causation; 7. The Metaphysics of Agency II: And How to Solve It; 8. The Metaphysics of Agency III: Where the Action Is; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Embodied Minds in Action works out a unified treatment of three fundamental philosophical problems: the mind-body problem, the problem of mental causation, and the problem of action. Hanna and Maiese offer a new paradigm for contemporary mainstream research in the philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience. - ;In Embodied Minds in Action, Robert Hanna and Michelle Maiese work out a unified treatment of three fundamental philosophical problems: the mind-body



problem, the problem of mental causation, and the problem of action. This unified treatment rests on two basic claims. The first is tha