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

• Autore: Hanna Robert <1957->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (431 p.)
• Disciplina: 128
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy of mind; Cognitive neuroscience; Mind and body; Causation; Act (Philosophy)
• Altri autori: MaieseMichelle
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Embodied minds in action
• ISBN: 1-383-03645-4; 1-281-93083-0; 9786611930837; 0-19-155217-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782735203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II