| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 2003
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (249 p.)
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| Disciplina |
128/.2
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| Altri autori (Persone) |
PeruzziAlberto
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| Collana |
Advances in consciousness research
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| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy of mind
Causation
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| ISBN |
1-58811-474-0
1-282-25485-5
90-272-9585-9
9786612254857
1-4237-7231-8
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Mind and Causality -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Causality and development -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Changes in the meaning of causality: A potted history -- 3. Determinism versus indeterminism -- 4. Dynamical systems approaches: Determinism and indeterminism -- 5. Whither developmental causality? -- 6. A concluding remark -- References -- Perception of causality -- 1. Phenomenology of causality -- 2. The conditions for the perception of causality -- 3. The importance of Michotte's work -- 4. Causality and Gestalt problems in cognitive psychology -- 5. Spizzo's effect -- 6. Rhythmical patterns, dynamic systems and causality -- 7. Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Embodiment and the philosophy of mind -- 1. Introduction: The rediscovery of the body and of the world -- 2. Inner symbol flight -- 3. Radical interactionism -- 4. Minimal Cartesianism -- 5. Scaling, rationality and complexity -- Notes -- References -- Causes and motivations -- Premise -- 1. The phenomenal field -- 2. Language and the phenomenal field -- 3. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Mental causation and intentionality in a mind naturalising theory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A definition of cognitive naturalism -- 3. K. Popper's criticism of materialism -- 4. A reply to Popper -- 5. Two kinds of epistemological pluralism: H. Putnam and J. McDowell -- 6. A reply to McDowell: Intentionality naturalised -- Notes -- References -- The envious frog -- 1. Identity theory and mental causation -- 2. The knowledge argument teaching -- 3. Correlation and identity -- 4. Getting rid of multiple realizability -- 5. Between universal and individual -- 6. Concluding remarks: Featuring mental states -- Notes -- References -- Knowing what it is like and knowing how -- Introduction -- 1. Mental states in a physical world.
2. Mary's scientific knowledge -- 3. The ability reply -- 4. Resisting the ability reply -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Human cognition -- 1. Human evolution and cognition -- 2. Brain size and the evolutionary process -- 3. The behavioral record -- 4. The origin of modern human consciousness -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Space, time and cognition -- Introduction -- Part 1. An introduction to the space and time of modern physics -- 1.1. Taking leave of Laplace -- 1.2. Three types of physical theory: Relativity, quantum physics and the theory of critical transitions in the behaviour of dynamical systems -- 1.3. Some remarks -- Part 2. From physics to biology: Space and time in the ``field'' of living systems -- 2.1. The time of life -- 2.2. Three forms of time -- 2.3. Dynamics of the self-constitution of living systems -- 2.4. Morphogenesis -- 2.5. Information and geometric structure -- 2.6. Globality and circularity in space and time -- Part 3. Spatio-temporal determinacy and biology -- 3.1. Biological aspects -- 3.2. Space: Laws of scaling and of critical behaviour. The geometry of biological functions -- 3.3. Three types of time -- 3.4. Epistemological and mathematical aspects -- 3.5. Closing remarks -- Notes -- References** -- Causality in the texture of mind -- 1. The causal variety: Some ``framework'' remarks -- 2. Anisotropic causality -- 3. A couple of ``common-sense'' examples relevant for reduction and emergence -- 4. Dynamical systems and perception-action models -- Notes -- References -- Index -- The series ADVANCES IN CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH.
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Giulio Preti filosofo europeo / / a cura di Alberto Peruzzi