Reduction : between the mind and the brain / Alexander Hieke, Hannes Leitgeb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hieke, Alexander.

Contributor:

Leitgeb, Hannes.

Series:

Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society ; n.s., v. 12.

Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. New series ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thought and thinking.

Mind and body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Heusenstamm [Germany] : ontos, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The investigation of the mind has been one of the major concerns of our philosophical tradition and it still is a dominant subject in modern philosophy as well as in science. Many philosophers in the scientific tradition want to solve the "puzzles of the mind". But many philosophers in the very same tradition do regard these puzzles as puzzles of the brain. So, whilst the former think of the mental as something of its own kind, the latter deny that philosophy of mind has to do with anything else but the brain. And then there are those who think that reduction is the way to go: maybe the mental is brain-dependent and hence reducible to the physical, in some way. This volume collects contributions comprising all those points of view, including articles by William Bechtel, Jerry Fodor, Jaegwon Kim, Joëlle Proust and Patrick Suppes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Introduction

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. BETWEEN THE MIND ...

ENOUGH WITH THE NORMS ALREADY! / Fodor, Jerry

INTENTIONALITY, INFORMATION, AND EXPERIENCE / Brandl, Johannes L.

ACCEPTANCE AS CONDITIONAL DISPOSITION / Paglieri, Fabio

II. ... AND ...

"SUPERVENIENT AND YET NOT DEDUCIBLE": IS THERE A COHERENT CONCEPT OF ONTOLOGICAL EMERGENCE? / Kim, Jaegwon

NON-REDUCTIVE PHYSICALISM, MENTAL CAUSATION AND THE NATURE OF ACTIONS / Schlosser, Markus E.

SORITICAL SERIES AND FISHER SERIES / Égré, Paul

THE ELIMINATION OF MEANING IN COMPUTATIONAL THEORIES OF MIND / Schweizer, Paul

III. ... THE BRAIN

NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY / Suppes, Patrick

DECOMPOSING, RECOMPOSING, AND SITUATING CIRCADIAN MECHANISMS: THREE TASKS IN DEVELOPING MECHANISTIC EXPLANATIONS / Bechtel, William / Abrahamsen, Adele

ADAPTIVE CONTROL LOOPS AS AN INTERMEDIATE MIND-BRAIN REDUCTION BASIS / Proust, Joëlle

Backmatter

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-11-032885-2

OCLC:

851972161

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access