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

• Autore: Hohwy
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 312 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 110
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy of mind; Brain
• Classificazione: 08.35
• Altri autori: HohwyJakob KallestrupJesper
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Being reduced
• ISBN: 9780191549557; 019154955X; 9786611825478; 1-281-82547-6; 0-19-154955-X; 0-19-170597-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910795729703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II