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Autore |
Hohwy |
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Titolo |
Being reduced : new essays on reduction, explanation, and causation / / edited by Jakob Hohwy, Jesper Kallestrup |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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9780191549557 |
019154955X |
9786611825478 |
1-281-82547-6 |
0-19-154955-X |
0-19-170597-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) : illustrations |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Philosophy of mind |
Mind and body |
Reductionism |
Materialism |
Brain |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 -- |
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Mental causation and neural mechanisms / James Woodward -- Distinctions in distinction / Daniel Stoljar -- Exclusion again / Karen Bennett. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Is the mind nothing but neural firings in the brain? Are we just a bunch of neurons? If the mind is just the brain, then how can we act as genuine, responsible agents in the world? Being Reduced attempts to understand these questions. |
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