عنوان

Physicalism and its discontents

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

English

Title Proper

Physicalism and its discontents

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge; New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2001

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 369 p.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references )p. ]350[-366( and index.

Text of Note

edited by Carl Gillett, Barry Loewer

Text of Note

1

Text of Note

The rise of physicalism / David Papineau -- From physics to physicalism / Barry Loewer -- Sufficiency claims and physicalism, a formulation / D. Gene Witmer -- Realization and mental causation / Sydney Shoemaker -- Physicalism and psychology, a plea for a substantive philosophy of mind / Georges Rey -- Davidson and nonreductive materialism, a tale of two cultures / Howard Robinson -- Substance physicalism / Noa Latham -- Possibility, physical and metaphysical / Stephen Leeds -- The roots of reductionism / Scott Sturgeon -- The significance of emergence / Tim Crane -- The methodological role of physicalism, a minimal skepticism / Carl Gillett -- Physicalism, empiricism, and positivism / Gary Gates -- Mental causation and consciousness, the two mind-body problems for the physicalist / Jaegwon Kim -- How not to solve the mind-body problem / Colin McGinn -- Deconstructing New Wave materialism / Terence Horgan and John Tienson -- In defence of New Wave materialism, a response to Horgan and Tienson / Brian McLaughlin -- Physicalism unfalsified, Chalmer's inconclusive conceivability argument / Andrew Melnyk.

Entry Element

، Materialism

Entry Element

، Philosophy of mind

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TI

AU Gillett, Carl 1967-

AU Loewer, Barry.