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Mind and Causality.
Which causal patterns are involved in mental processes? On what mechanisms does the self-organisation of cognitive structure rest? Can a naturalistic view account for the basic resources of intentionality, while avoiding the objections to reductive materialism?By considering the developmental, pheno...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
2004.
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| Colección: | Advances in consciousness research ;
v. 55. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC page
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Causality and development
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Changes in the meaning of causality: A potted history
- 3. Determinism versus indeterminism
- 4. Dynamical systems approaches: Determinism and indeterminism
- 5. Whither developmental causality?
- 6. A concluding remark
- References
- Perception of causality
- 1. Phenomenology of causality
- 2. The conditions for the perception of causality
- 3. The importance of Michotte's work
- 4. Causality and Gestalt problems in cognitive psychology
- 5. Spizzo's effect
- 6. Rhythmical patterns, dynamic systems and causality
- 7. Conclusion
- Note
- References
- Embodiment and the philosophy of mind
- 1. Introduction: The rediscovery of the body and of the world
- 2. Inner symbol flight
- 3. Radical interactionism
- 4. Minimal Cartesianism
- 5. Scaling, rationality and complexity
- Notes
- References
- Causes and motivations
- Premise
- 1. The phenomenal field
- 2. Language and the phenomenal field
- 3. Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Mental causation and intentionality in a mind naturalising theory
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A definition of cognitive naturalism
- 3. K. Popper's criticism of materialism
- 4. A reply to Popper
- 5. Two kinds of epistemological pluralism: H. Putnam and J. McDowell
- 6. A reply to McDowell: Intentionality naturalised
- Notes
- References
- The envious frog
- 1. Identity theory and mental causation
- 2. The knowledge argument teaching
- 3. Correlation and identity
- 4. Getting rid of multiple realizability
- 5. Between universal and individual
- 6. Concluding remarks: Featuring mental states
- Notes
- References
- Knowing what it is like and knowing how
- Introduction
- 1. Mental states in a physical world
- 2. Mary's scientific knowledge
- 3. The ability reply
- 4. Resisting the ability reply
- 5. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Human cognition
- 1. Human evolution and cognition
- 2. Brain size and the evolutionary process
- 3. The behavioral record
- 4. The origin of modern human consciousness
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Space, time and cognition
- Introduction
- Part 1. An introduction to the space and time of modern physics
- 1.1. Taking leave of Laplace
- 1.2. Three types of physical theory: Relativity, quantum physics and the theory of critical transitions in the behaviour of dynamical systems
- 1.3. Some remarks
- Part 2. From physics to biology: Space and time in the ''field'' of living systems
- 2.1. The time of life
- 2.2. Three forms of time
- 2.3. Dynamics of the self-constitution of living systems
- 2.4. Morphogenesis
- 2.5. Information and geometric structure
- 2.6. Globality and circularity in space and time
- Part 3. Spatio-temporal determinacy and biology
- 3.1. Biological aspects
- 3.2. Space: Laws of scaling and of critical behaviour. The geometry of biological functions
- 3.3. Three types of time
- 3.4. Epistemological and mathematical aspects
- 3.5. Closing remarks
- Notes
- References**
- Causality in the texture of mind
- 1. The causal variety: Some ''framework'' remarks
- 2. Anisotropic causality.