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From Psychology to Neuroscience : a New Reductive Account /
This book explores the mind-body issue from both the perspectives of philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. Starting from the problem of mental causation, it provides an overview of the contemporary metaphysical discussion and argues in favour of the token-identity thesis, as the only positio...
| 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. 21. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book explores the mind-body issue from both the perspectives of philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. Starting from the problem of mental causation, it provides an overview of the contemporary metaphysical discussion and argues in favour of the token-identity thesis, as the only position that can account for the causal efficacy of the mental. Showing furthermore that this ontological reductionism is not dissociable from epistemological reductionism, the author applies a new strategy of inter-theoretic reduction, which is compatible with the multiple realizability of mental propert. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ii, 318 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110322620 3110322625 3868381082 9783868381085 3110322250 9783110322255 |