Luke Roelofs

Combining Minds (eBook, ePUB)

How to Think about Composite Subjectivity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Combining Minds is about the idea of minds built up out of other minds, whether this is possible, and what it would mean if it were. Roelofs surveys many areas of philosophy and psychology, analysing and evaluating denials and affirmations of mental combination that have been made in regard to everything from brain structure, to psychological conflict, to social cooperation. In each case, he carefully distinguishes different senses in which subjectivity might be composite, and different arguments for and against them, concluding that composite subjectivity, in various forms, may be much more common than we think. Combining Minds is also the first book-length defence of constitutive panpsychism against all aspects of the 'combination problem'. Constitutive panpsychism is an increasingly prominent theory, holding that consciousness is naturally inherent in matter, with human consciousness built up out of this basic consciousness the same way human bodies are built up out of physical matter. Such a view requires that many very simple conscious minds can compose a single very complex one, and a major objection made against constitutive panpsychism is that they cannot - that minds simply do not combine. This is the combination problem, which Roelofs scrutinizes, dissects, and refutes. It reflects not only contemporary debates but a long philosophical tradition of contrasting the apparently indivisible unity of the mind with the deep and pervasive divisibility of the material world. Combining Minds draws together the threads of this problem and develops a powerful and flexible response to it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190859077
• Artikelnr.: 55025515

Autorenporträt

Luke Roelofs is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ruhr-University Bochum. He works on a range of topics in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and meta-ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

* Division 1: Introducing Combinationism
* Chapter 1: A Universe of Composite Subjectivity
* Chapter 2: Conscious Subjects, Conscious Unity, and Five Arguments
for Anti-Combination
* Division 2: Combinationism for Panpsychists
* Chapter 3: Composite Subjectivity and Microsubjects
* Chapter 4: The Problems of Structural Discrepancy
* Division 3: Combinationism for Functionalists
* Chapter 5: Composite Subjectivity and Intelligent Subjects
* Chapter 6: Composite Subjectivity in Organisms, Organs, and
Organisations
* Division 4: Combinationism for Persons
* Chapter 7: Composite Subjectivity and Psychological Subjects
* Chapter 8: What it is Like for Two to Become One
* Conclusion