Physicalism and its discontents / edited by Carl Gillett, Barry Loewer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gillett, Carl, 1967-

Loewer, Barry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Materialism.

Philosophy of mind.

Physical Description:

x, 369 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Summary:

A collection of new essays by physicalists and their critics.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0521801753

OCLC:

45374773