Steven Horst

Beyond Reduction

Philosophy of Mind and Post-Reductionist Philosophy of Science

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A positive, alternative approach to mind which sees the philosophy of mind, like the sciences, as cognitive enterprises trying to model local features of the world and ourselves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9780199914692
• ISBN-10: 0199914699
• Artikelnr.: 34553889

Autorenporträt

Steven Horst is Chair, Department of Philosophy, Wesleyan University; author of Symbols, Computation, and Intentionality: A Critique of the Computational Theory of Mind and Laws, Mind, and Free Will.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction
* Section I -- Naturalism and Reductionism
* 1. Varieties of Naturalism: What is a Naturalistic Philosophy of
Mind?
* 2. Reduction and Supervenience: The Contemporary Problematic in
Philosophy of Mind
* 3. The Demise of Reductionism in Philosophy of Science
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* Section II
* 4. Reductionism and Eliminativism
* 5. Dualism and the Explanatory Gaps
* 6. Non-Reductive Physicalism and Mysterianism
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* Section III -- Cognitive Pluralism
* 7. Two Types of Pluralism
* 8. The Scope and Plausibility of Cognitive Pluralist Epistemology
* 9. Cognitive Pluralism and Modal Metaphysics
* 10. Cognitive Pluralism and Naturalism
* Bibliography