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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795729703321

Autore

Hohwy

Titolo

Being reduced [[electronic resource] ] : new essays on reduction, explanation, and causation / / edited by Jakob Hohwy, Jesper Kallestrup

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

9780191549557

019154955X

9786611825478

1-281-82547-6

0-19-154955-X

0-19-170597-7

Descrizione fisica

viii, 312 p. : ill

Classificazione

08.35

Altri autori (Persone)

HohwyJakob

KallestrupJesper

Disciplina

110

Soggetti

Philosophy of mind

Brain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Reduction and embodied cognition : perspectives from medicine and psychiatry / Valerie Gray Hardcastle and Rosalyn W. Stewart -- Real reduction in real neuroscience : metascience, not philosophy of science (and certainly not metaphysics!) / John Bickle -- Reduction in real life / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- Group agency and supervenience / Christian List and Philip Pettit -- Reduction and reductive explanation : is one possible without the other? / Jaegwon Kim -- CP laws, reduction, and explanatory pluralism / Peter Lipton -- Must a physicalist be a microphysicalist? / David Papineau -- Why there is anything except physics? / Barry Loewer -- Multiple realization : keeping it real / Louise M. Antony -- Causation and determinable properties : on the efficacy of colour, shape, and size / Tim Crane -- The exclusion problem, the determination relation, and contrastive causation / Peter Menzies -- Mental causation and neural mechanisms / James Woodward -- Distinctions in distinction / Daniel Stoljar -- Exclusion again / Karen Bennett.