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The conceptual link from physical to mental /

How are truths about physical and mental states related? Robert Kirk articulates and defends 'redescriptive physicalism' - a fresh approach to the connection between the physical and the mental, which answers the problems that mental causation has traditionally raised for other non-reducti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kirk, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Redescription and logico-conceptual entailment
  • Logico-conceptual entailment and other notions
  • Supervenience
  • Psycho-physical identity and functionalism
  • A posteriori physicalism : but not as we know it
  • A priori versus redescriptive physicalism
  • Redescription, reduction, and mental causation
  • Phenomenal truths are entailed logico-conceptually, but not a priori
  • Against the intuitions : and why it's like this.