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Autore: | Hohwy |
Titolo: | Being reduced [[electronic resource] ] : new essays on reduction, explanation, and causation / / edited by Jakob Hohwy, Jesper Kallestrup |
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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
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.: | 9910807361403321 |
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