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Reduction in philosophy of mind : a pluralistic account /
The notion of reduction continues to play a key role in philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science. Supporters of reductionism claim that psychological properties or explanations reduce to neural properties or explanations, while antireductionists claim that such reductions are not possi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Frankfurt ; New Brunswick :
Ontos Verlag,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Epistemische Studien (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ;
Bd. 24. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The notion of reduction continues to play a key role in philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science. Supporters of reductionism claim that psychological properties or explanations reduce to neural properties or explanations, while antireductionists claim that such reductions are not possible. In this book, I apply recent developments in philosophy of science, particularly the mechanistic explanation paradigm and the interventionist theory of causation, to reassess the traditional approaches to reduction in philosophy of mind. I then elaborate and defend a pluralistic framework for p. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (189 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783110332131 3110332132 3868381252 9783868381252 3110322919 9783110322910 |