C B Martin

The Mind in Nature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What are the most fundamental features of the world? Do minds stand outside the natural order? Is a unified picture of mental and physical reality possible? The Mind in Nature provides a staunchly realist account of the world as a unified system incorporating both the mental and the physical.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 173mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780199234103
• ISBN-10: 0199234108
• Artikelnr.: 23525262

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Introduction
2: Dispositions and Conditionals
3: Truthmakers and Disposition Lines: From Quark to Colleague
4: Parts and Wholes
5: Causality
6: The Road to Pythagoreanism and Back
7: Linguisticism and Pythagoreanism
8: Protolanguage
9: Use, Representational Use, and Content
10: Emergence, Reduction, and Mental Chauvanism
11: Dispositional Systems
12: Two Jokes Explained
13: Tactile-Motor-Kinaesthetic Perception
14: Verbal Imagery
15: Mind in Nature: A New View of the Mind
16: Warps and Woof of Einstein
References
Index