How are truths about physical and mental states related? Robert Kirk articulates and defends 'redescriptive physicalism'--a fresh approach to the connection between the physical and the mental, which answers the problems that mental causation has traditionally raised for other non-reductive views.
How are truths about physical and mental states related? Robert Kirk articulates and defends 'redescriptive physicalism'--a fresh approach to the connection between the physical and the mental, which answers the problems that mental causation has traditionally raised for other non-reductive views.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Robert Kirk is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. His other books are Translation Determined (OUP, 1986), Raw Feeling (OUP, 1994), Relativism and Reality (Routledge, 1999), Mind and Body (Acumen, 2003), and Zombies and Consciousness (OUP, 2005).
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1: Introduction 2: Redescription and logico-conceptual entailment 3: Logico-conceptual entailment and other notions 4: Supervenience 5: Psycho-physical identity and functionalism 6: A posteriori physicalism - but not as we know it 7: A priori versus redescriptive physicalism 8: Redescription, reduction, and mental causation 9: Phenomenal truths are entailed logico-conceptually, but not a priori 10: Against the intuitions - and why it's like this Bibliography Index
1: Introduction 2: Redescription and logico-conceptual entailment 3: Logico-conceptual entailment and other notions 4: Supervenience 5: Psycho-physical identity and functionalism 6: A posteriori physicalism - but not as we know it 7: A priori versus redescriptive physicalism 8: Redescription, reduction, and mental causation 9: Phenomenal truths are entailed logico-conceptually, but not a priori 10: Against the intuitions - and why it's like this Bibliography Index
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