The waning of materialism / edited by Robert C. Koons and George Bealer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koons, Robert C., author.

Bealer, George, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Materialism.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, 490 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Twenty-three philosophers examine the doctrine of materialism find it wanting. The case against materialism comprises arguments from conscious experience, from the unity and identity of the person, from intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge. The contributors include leaders in the fields of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology, who respond ably to the most recent versions and defences of materialism. The modal arguments of Kripke and Chalmers,Jackson>'s knowledge argument, Kim>'s exclusion problem, and Burge>'s anti-individualism all play a part in the building

Contents:

Part I. Arguments from consciousness

Against materialism / Laurence BonJour

A simple view of consciousness / Adam Pautz

Saving appearances : a dilemma for physicalists / Charles Siewert

The property dualism argument / Stephen L. White

Kripke's argument against materialism / Eli Hirsch

The self-consciousness argument : functionalism and the corruption of intentional content / George Bealer

Part II. Arguments from unity and identity

You are simple / David Barnett

Persons and the unity of consciousness / William Hasker

An argument from transtemporal identity for subject-body dualism / Martine Nida-Rumelin

Part III. Intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge

Burge's dualism / Bernard W. Kobes

Modest dualism / Tyler Burge

Descartes' revenge part II : the supervenience argument strikes back / Neal Judisch

Nonreductive physicalism or emergent dualism : the argument from mental causation / Timothy O'Connor and John Ross Churchil

Epistemological objections to materialism / Robert C. Koons

Part IV. Alternatives to materialism

Materialism, minimal emergentism, and the hard problem of consciousness / Terry Horgan

Dualizing materialism / Michael Jubien

Dualistic materialism / Joseph Almog

Varieties of naturalism / Mario De Caro

Against methodological materialism / Angus J.L. Menuge

Soul, mind, and brain / Brian Leftow

Materialism does not save the phenomena and the alternative which does / Uwe Meixner

Substance dualism : a non-cartesian approach / E.J. Lowe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-161401-7

0-19-955619-9

1-282-53475-0

9786612534751

0-19-157174-1

OCLC:

649831357