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Author : Thomas Kroedel
Release : 2019-12-19
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 149/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mental Causation by : Thomas Kroedel
Download or read book Mental Causation written by Thomas Kroedel. This book was released on 2019-12-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive account of how the mind causes things to happen in the physical world. This book is also available as Open Access.
Author : Anthony Dardis
Release : 2008
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Rating : 164/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mental Causation by : Anthony Dardis
Download or read book Mental Causation written by Anthony Dardis. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two thousand years ago, Lucretius said that everything is atoms in the void; it's physics all the way down. Contemporary physicalism agrees. But if that's so how can we--how can our thoughts, emotions, our values--make anything happen in the physical world? This conceptual knot, the mental causation problem, is the core of the mind-body problem, closely connected to the problems of free will, consciousness, and intentionality. Anthony Dardis shows how to unravel the knot. He traces its early appearance in the history of philosophical inquiry, specifically in the work of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and T. H. Huxley. He then develops a metaphysical framework for a theory of causation, laws of nature, and the causal relevance of properties. Using this framework, Dardis explains how macro, or higher level, properties can be causally relevant in the same way that microphysical properties are causally relevant: by their relationship with the laws of nature. Smelling an orange, choosing the orange rather than the cheesecake, reaching for the one on the left instead of the one on the right-mental properties such as these take their place alongside the physical "motor of the world" in making things happen.
Author : S. C. Gibb
Release : 2013-03-21
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 774/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mental Causation and Ontology by : S. C. Gibb
Download or read book Mental Causation and Ontology written by S. C. Gibb. This book was released on 2013-03-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the importance of ontology for a central debate in philosophy of mind. Mental causation seems an obvious aspect of the world. But it is hard to understand how it can happen unless we get clear about what the entities involved in the process are. An international team of contributors presents new work on this problem.
Author : Jaegwon Kim
Release : 2000
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Rating : 534/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mind in a Physical World by : Jaegwon Kim
Download or read book Mind in a Physical World written by Jaegwon Kim. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. This book, based on Jaegwon Kim's 1996 Townsend Lectures, presents the philosopher's current views on a variety of issues in the metaphysics of the mind--in particular, the mind-body problem, mental causation, and reductionism. Kim construes the mind-body problem as that of finding a place for the mind in a world that is fundamentally physical. Among other points, he redefines the roles of supervenience and emergence in the discussion of the mind-body problem. Arguing that various contemporary accounts of mental causation are inadequate, he offers his own partially reductionist solution on the basis of a novel model of reduction. Retaining the informal tone of the lecture format, the book is clear yet sophisticated.
Author : Terry Horgan
Release : 2015-03-05
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 834/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical World by : Terry Horgan
Download or read book Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical World written by Terry Horgan. This book was released on 2015-03-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of new essays that develop themes from the work of the philosopher Jaegwon Kim.
