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Re-emergence : locating conscious properties in a material world /

Revisiting and defending a key doctrine of the once widely accepted school of philosophy known as emergentism, Gerald Vision proposes that conscious states are emergents, although they depend for their exsitence on their material bases.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vision, Gerald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: I. Emergentism of the Mental Described and Defended
  • 1. History and Background
  • 1.1. Surveying the Landscape
  • 1.2. Emergentism Depicted
  • 1.3. Classical Emergentism
  • 1.4. Problems and Refinements
  • 1.5. Emergence and the Mental
  • 1.6. Relevant Emergentist Theses
  • 1.7. Theories of the Mental I: Eliminativism
  • 1.8. Theories of the Mental II: Dualism
  • 1.9. Variations on Physicalist Themes
  • 1.10. Non-Reductive Physicalism Contrasted with Emergentism
  • 1.11. Conclusion
  • 2. Fleshing Out the View
  • 2.1. Elaboration of Supervenience and Explanation
  • 2.2. Supervenience Essentials
  • 2.3. Supervenience and Emergentism
  • 2.4. Explanation Essentials
  • 2.5. Conceptual Gambit
  • 2.6. Some Alternative Formulations
  • 2.7. Transition
  • 3. Coincidence: Realization and Identity
  • 3.1. From Supervenience to Realization
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