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Being reduced : new essays on reduction, explanation, and causation /
Is the mind nothing but neural firings in the brain? Are we just a bunch of neurons? If the mind is just the brain, then how can we act as genuine, responsible agents in the world? 'Being Reduced' attempts to understand these questions.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, UK :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Philosophy module. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Reduction and embodied cognition : perspectives from medicine and psychiatry / Valerie Gray Hardcastle and Rosalyn W. Stewart
- Real reduction in real neuroscience : metascience, not philosophy of science (and certainly not metaphysics!) / John Bickle
- Reduction in real life / Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Group agency and supervenience / Christian List and Philip Pettit
- Reduction and reductive explanation : is one possible without the other? / Jaegwon Kim
- CP laws, reduction, and explanatory pluralism / Peter Lipton
- Must a physicalist be a microphysicalist? / David Papineau
- Why there is anything except physics? / Barry Loewer
- Multiple realization : keeping it real / Louise M. Antony
- Causation and determinable properties : on the efficacy of colour, shape, and size / Tim Crane
- The exclusion problem, the determination relation, and contrastive causation / Peter Menzies
- Mental causation and neural mechanisms / James Woodward
- Distinctions in distinction / Daniel Stoljar
- Exclusion again / Karen Bennett.